Jun 11th, 2012
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Dr. Seuss is smart, and quite beloved in my house. How many times have I read Marvin K. Mooney to my nephews? And no birthday passes without a quote from Happy Birthday to You!
And yet the wise lessons of our favorite Theodore don’t always hit home, at least not for me. That’s why I want to share a small incident from a few weeks ago:
A young girl with autism lives near my seven-year-old niece. One day this little girl was passing by with her home health aide, and my niece asked her where she was going. The woman explained that they were going to buy the little girl some nail polish.
My niece ran into her house, came out with all her bottles of nail polish, asked the little girl what her favorite color was, and gave that little girl a manicure.
I couldn’t be prouder.
A person’s a person, no matter her diagnosis, her age, or how she looks while walking down the street. And my niece, for one, knows that.
(The quote, by the way, is from Horton Hears a Who, published originally in 1954.)