RE: Mom also cries [ENG][ESP]

Thank you for your response @nathy33 and thank you for clarifying the genesis of your story and the reason for the duplicated story comments. That makes complete sense to me. I was drawn into your story, and your writing of something so intense and personal, in the first person, made it feel so real. I am a parent of a special needs child myself so I could relate. This story was told with tenderness and compassion. There are incredible moments of joy that a parent experiences with each progressive step in their journey with their child. And it is a journey as much for the parent as the child. It is an exhausting journey filled with anxiety and despair, love and hope. I would have loved to have seen more of the impacts of the child's challenges as experienced through the eyes of the child and the mother. More show than tell. I think it would have made the ending more impactfull than it already was. Some simple examples: Perhaps some early dialogue between mother and son and the use of descriptive language around sensations viz. the touch of his skin against hers, her child's natural scent, what she saw in him, the sound of his unsteady voice and frustration as the letters were mashed together in frustration, the salty tears that ran down her face... ways to show feelings like connection, love, sadness, and frustration. Allow me to share a resource from The Ink Well Show don't Tell

Thank you for writing in The Ink Well. I look forward to your next story :-)