The doctors told Elizabeth Criss that a child with her daughter’s disorder would only live until she was 8.
She would suffer from seizures, the doctors said. She would likely be unable to communicate and would have problems with her vision.
Almost all of that was true, except Emily Criss is now 29.
“We never expected she would age out of the school system,” Elizabeth Criss said. “It feels good when the doctors are wrong.”
Now Criss said she worries about her daughter’s future. What will happen if Emily outlives her parents? Who will bathe her, feed her, change her and understand that she likes to sit on the cool, green grass because it soothes her, or that small, colorful toys calm her?
Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.