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This week we chat with Kalani Brown, mother of a son with Down syndrome and chair of the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, among many other roles. She shares with us the importance of inclusion and raising expectations for people with developmental disabilities.

We talk about:

• Receiving a down syndrome diagnosis and discovering support
• Navigating public school to find the balance of support and inclusion
• Shifting the idea that children are “suffering” from Down syndrome
• Launching into advocacy by serving in the community
• How Montessori concepts are designed for children with learning differences
• Changing the narrative about people with developmental disabilities
• Setting high expectations and following the child’s lead

Links

Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council

State Developmental Disabilities Council

Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network

National Down Syndrome Society

National Down Syndrome Congress

Local and National Down Syndrome Support Networks

Down Syndrome publications

Sting Sings Uplifting, Original Tune for World Down Syndrome Day

Books

• Gifts:  Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives – Kathryn Lynard
• Gifts 2:  How People with Down Syndrome Enrich the World- - Kathryn Lynard
• Whole Child Reading:  A quick-Start Guide to Teaching Students with Down Syndrome and Other Developmental Delays -  Nathalie Hale
• Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome: The Respond but Don’t React Method – David Stein

It starts with a little harmless fat shaming — okay, not that little. (And not that harmless.) Then we move on to ripping the Royals. Next up? Missy tears Amy a new one for her lack of automotive maintenance, complete disregard for her own children’s safety and total refusal to adopt any reasonable standard of adulthood. Truth be told, she might have a point.  

We wrap up our judges episode ever by doing what we do best — judging YOU, Dear Listener, for so rarely keeping in touch. Visit us on all the socials at @ListenBrilliant, @BrillObsSquad, www.BrilliantObservations.com, or BrilliantObservations@gmail.com. Find swag at TeePublic.com/BrilliantObservations, or support us at Patreon.com/BrilliantObservations. We'll be glad you did. (You might be, too.)

This week we chat with Dee Sapp, Executive Director of Accessibility Bridge Corporation, mother of three including an olympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. Dee shares with us how her passion for community inclusion lead to great things for her son and to the birth of an organization that serves to encourage people with all disabilities to integrate into the larger society and connect them with resources. 

We talk about:

• Raising a son who is a competitive athlete with an intellectual disability
• Getting a proper, accurate diagnosis before the age of 18 to get appropriate services
• How support decreased after elementary school
• Pushing for inclusion in order to have success
• Getting the IEP team to think outside the box
• Exploring college options for students with intellectual disabilities
• Discovering the Think College resource
• Building the college wish list: social inclusion, academic inclusion, competitive sports
• Finding recognized and accredited programs
• Switching from public school to home school to prepare for college
• Creating a movement to rethink what people with disabilities can do
• Company programs targeted for people with disabilities 
• Redefining the end goal, and thinking beyond graduating from high school

Links

Accessibility Bridge Corporation

Think College

Think College Documentary

So it turns out, Lionel Ritchie can get it. Amy continues to slow-walk her possible brain break diagnosis. And Melissa's Miracle Boobs™ return for a command performance — this time with *No Bra.* What can we say, Dear Listener? We just love you that much. 

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Dear Listener, who's your first? Missy unlocks the vault to see if anybody besides Stuart is actually in there. Spoiler Alert: she locks him back in. (Poor Stu.) THANK YOU to our newest Patreon Subscribers, our longest fans, and our loudest supporters. We love you way more than we ever admit. 

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From sourdough and cannibalism to Chris Hemsworth’s prosthetic penis, we dive deep into the paralyzing reality of “healthy fears.” Suck it, sharks. We're buying a beach house. 

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Friends in need level-jump their testicle-and-lady-part questions straight over Melissa’s head in an attempt to get to Dr. Stuart. Her advice? If you’re taking two days to eat an orange, you’re doing something wrong.
Join us as we eviscerate all the cheeses, catchup on the beach house hunt and debate the horrors of wedgie-inducing underpants. Weigh in on the thong-vs-boy short-vs-nudist debate at @ListenBrilliant, @BrillObsSquad, www.BrilliantObservations.com, or BrilliantObservations@gmail.com. Find swag at TeePublic.com/BrilliantObservations, or support us at Patreon.com/BrilliantObservations.
Be kind. We’re snowed in.

It’s the “Melissa hates everything orange” episode, as Missy dives head first into the mystery of Sumo oranges, “orange” American cheese (breathe slowly, it’s ok), government loaf cheese, Velveeta “cheese”…and the list rages on.
Amy swings by college for a quick “life will be OK” visit, while Melissa Instacarts family-sized sushi during two feet of snow. Missy spills the latest on the beach house hunt. We both dive deep into the perils of women’s underwear, including wedgies, thongs, boy shorts and toe socks. It’s a rabbit hole. Then Missy saves the day with talk of Lupin, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist, writing novels and getting paid for your craft.
So in the end we finish strong.

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In this episode, we chat with Lauren Shillinger, a fierce advocate for her children and the passage of Brynleigh’s Act for Seizure Safe Schools. 

We talk about:

• Finding a cause of her daughter’s epilepsy
• Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC)
• Traveling to Texas for brain surgery
• Learning to navigate the system
• Turning grief and energy toward rare disease advocacy
• The TS Alliance and her work with the Maryland chapter
• Brynleigh’s Act for Seizure Safe Schools
• Ways to introduce legislation
• Giving back and finding hope
• The joy found in paying it forward

Related episodes

Families That Advocate Together Stay Together with Laura Hatcher

Changing Spaces and Creating Hope with Christina Abernethy

Links

Maryland General Assembly - HB370

Maryland General Assembly - SB225 

Find your Maryland Representatives

Kindness is Golden book

Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate, has speech and auditory processing issues

Low Intensity Support Services - LISS

Some things you just don’t talk about. Like loving crunchy peanut butter. Hating the beach. Or meeting a flaccid penis. As usual, Amy is convinced with no evidence whatsoever that the mythic “limp dick” heard tell in every comedy club and Hollywood storyline is actually a fallacy. I mean, have you *ever* heard anyone who has ever had this happen — male, female, friend, foe? Perhaps, dear listener, you will be the one to set the record ram-rod straight for us with some prized BrillObsSquad feedback. Or perhaps you’ll just crunch into a warm PB&J and call it a night.

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Grab your Go Bag, kids. It’s time to clip-in to your Peletons and ride through the weirdest sex talk ever. (Save us, Carson Daly!) Join us as we distract ourselves from the day’s events with sourdough, Bridgerton, and a jaunty, judgy dive into the why of watersports. Pee and sex. Poo and sex. Sushi and sex. Sex and sex. It’s enough to push a girl to eat tongue.

#CarbGood

If you're a skipper, this week, we cover...

College campus part 2
Melissa’s gray heart
Peleton therapy
Carson Daly
Ryan Seacrest
Sourdough
Go Bag
Watersports
Sex
Pee
Urine
Sushi
Bridgerton
Grey’s Anatomy
Sherlock
Elementary
Closed Captioning
Songs for Every Mood
iTunes haters
Spotify
Pop Up Video
Tongue sandwich
Honeycrisp apples
I want to speak to the Manager
Reverse Karen
Amish market
Finding joy in the small things
...and in Jesus Christ our savior
Cinnamon entrance
Pretzel exit
There some Carbs in the House
Iced coffee milkshake
So lonely for pretzels
Philadelphia
NY pizza
Pretzels are no fucking joke
Carb good
Batch bake
Tip of my tongue
Melt in my mouth
Pistachios
USPS
Mail woes
Shove them in your pie hole
High dollar chocolate drops
Pistachio truffles
Tunisian marzipan flowers
Covid cookies
Pistachio brittle

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Stuart accidentally swallows a dog toy, while Missy discovers the surprising power of even the least bit of encouragement. Just ask a flaccid penis. Hey, oh! This week's conversation brings talk of hellfire, exercise induced endorphins, and novel writing updates. Plus, Missy and Stu wave their last (almost?) goodbyes to the Florida house, and Amy and Melissa definitively confirm it’s the gift — not the thought — that counts. 

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In this episode, we chat with Aimee Darby, founder of the Eliza Hope Foundation. 

We talk about:

• Recognizing and savoring the important moments 
• The devastation that is losing a child
• The remarkable way that Aimee has turned her grief into action
• A foundation built to nurture families running to multiple therapies 
• Her come one, come all concept that serves all levels of functioning
• Equipping families while they are dealing with a new diagnosis
• Passing it on when its incredibly difficult to do so
• Eliza's purposes and the lessons taught in her four and a half years here
• The ability to celebrate other’s successes 
• The critical importance of saying their name, and allowing their memory to live on

Related episodes

Seizing Joy and Grace with Tracy Umezu

Links

The Eliza Hope Foundation

The Pinecone Collection

Custom jewelry with all proceeds benefiting The Eliza Hope Foundation: 

Holland 

A blog post that Aimee wrote a month before Eliza passed

Eliza Hope

Aimee’s first blog post after Eliza’s passing

Creepy things your gynecologist says, fight-stopping boobs, and wintry tales from a joyless childhood — all courtesy of your favorite gal pal (and President of the Shut Up I Don't Wanna Be In Your Club Club) Missy B! Tune in as we grab 2021 by the pillow and hit snooze a few times. 

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Get lost, 2020. We'd rather focus on Christmas recaps, Tik Tok obsession, creamy eggs, canine labia — you know, the good stuff. Give a listen. You'll wonder why you did. 

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Yuletide tipping got you in a quandry? Never fear! Just climb aboard our Slippery Little Sleigh™ for a holiday ride you won’t soon forget. 

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It's the annual Christmas Party, friends! Time for another game of Guess Who's Too Drunk To Be Here. ("Check, please.")
All that, please the perils of buying furniture, hiring housecleaners, and living with gastrointestinal distress. 

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Paging Mommie Dearest…in this week’s trip down Childhood Trauma Lane, Missy revisits her mother’s cleanliness-based ban on anything white because, quote, “you’ll just ruin it.” Feel the love as we break Missy’s children of their birthright, courtesy of a brand new white sweatshirt. Well. White...for now.  

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Here's a little something from the ones you love. We couldn't help ourselves. Enjoy, Dears!!

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Looking for a laugh while you clean the house, set the table, prep the food or...let's be honest, grab a menu and the remote ("Alexa, call GrubHub")? We've got you covered. We're releasing the show two days early so you'll have ample time to delay making your favorite holiday dishes. Like what you hear? Share it with family and friends who are hopefully stuck home alone just like you — #STAYtheFUCKhome — so they can join the sidesplitting, "sides"giving fun.
We'll even bring the creamed corn. Ew.  

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The only people traveling for Thanksgiving are death wish assholes. Sadly, Amy was temporarily among them. 

Listen with disgust as we talk holiday traditions decimated by covid and other peppy stories. And please note: we recorded and edited this episode roughly three weeks before Thanksgiving... so in the time it took to release the show, Amy has since changed her mind about travel. She and her family will all be celebrating the holiday at their individual homes this year. 

So as it turns out, be like Amy. 

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