Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
I actually like football a great deal.
I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.