Chasing the Merry-Go-Round

<p>Life moves fast. Too fast for some people. This is the true story of what it's like to live in a world where you can't keep up.</p><p>Bobby was ten months old when my mom and dad rescued him from birth parents who were slowly killing him. He was adopted into our family after a lengthy custody battle. Instead of that settling him it set off a lifelong struggle to find a place to belong a place to call home.</p><p>Like an old-fashioned merry-go-round the world moved at a speed that was just too fast for Bobby. He couldn't keep up which prevented him from keeping a job a roof over his head and the basics needed to survive. The life he dreamt of was always out of reach. No one knew why.</p><p>While cultural ideals of what a <em>normal</em> life looks like can distort our perspective <em>Chasing the Merry-Go-Round</em> allows readers to see the world through the eyes of a person with intellectual and physical disabilities which can often be invisible especially at first glance. It's a story about struggle and hope survival and resilience and most of all the gift of acceptance and love.</p>