This Is Us

Special Needs Parenting in the Age of Pandemic

This moment is hard for everyone. For parents of special needs kids, it’s harder.

Sean Patrick Hughes
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readMar 17, 2020

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I was on a ship headed out of the Gulf after three months of grueling summertime naval interdiction operations when 9/11 happened. We were extended indefinitely. For months, I spent six out of every 18 hours…

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Sean Patrick Hughes
Human Parts

Sean Patrick Hughes (www.seanpatrickhughes.com) is a writer, veteran and the founder of the non-profit Care For Us (www.care4us.org)