Amid everything else it has changed, COVID-19 has transformed yet one other fundamental part of our culture: The Birthday. My son, Knightly, has Down syndrome, apraxia and epilepsy and he just turned eight.
Customarily, we’d host a birthday party. He’d be surrounded with laughter, conversation, and energy. And then, he’d be sung, “Happy Birthday” by our loud-voiced karaoke-loving family.
And though he would be surrounded by love, he would spend a good deal of that party closing his ears, tearing up, and intermittently asking for people to leave.
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