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Over twenty years ago, in a little Israeli town, a desperate mother advised a remarkable rest. She informed her friends and family that her newborn child acquired died. That rest became the catalyst for the unfolding fact of the adoption of that same baby - Michael - who's, in fact, quite definitely alive and today 22 years of age. He also offers Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as a child, she cannot have known that he would save her life when she became gravely sick and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael's life and hers, while both proclaimed by difference and problem, are permanently intertwined in celebration and laughter. With candor and a sense of laughter, Life Using a Superhero wraps itself across the raucous pleasure of Michael's existence along with his four more mature siblings who play hard and love big; how Kathryn and her partner, Jim, utilize unconventional techniques in elevating kids; the relationship between Michael and his fiancee, Casey; the power of party in Michael's life as an equalizing and enthralling push; the staggering potential and creativity of these who are differently-abled; and the mind-blowing politics of how Kathryn navigated school systems and societal behaviour that sometimes fought to keep Michael excluded from the lives of kids regarded "normal". No other literature about the parenting experience put together how to proceed when, say, a child runs over the roof of the tri-level house pretending they can fly, or turns up in a 7th level social studies training dressed up like Spiderman, or message or calls 911 when his lover breaks his heart. But, as Michael's mommy, Kathryn, has been striving to find how to be a mother in only such circumstances - sometimes with success, sometimes with dismal failing - for over two decades.
