One of the hardest things about raising a kid with a rare disease is raising their neurotypical sibling at the same time.

I talk to other parents of kids with rare stuff or other kinds of disabilities, and there's this pattern. The siblings grow up fast. Way faster than we want them to. They see things and hear things. They feel the stress in the household, even if you try to hide it.

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