Meet Bonnie Brown. She’s a single mother who works at Wendy’s to help support her teenaged daughter. She also has a disability.
Recently, Bonnie was interviewed by her 15-year-old daughter, Myra, for a StoryCorps video where she opened up about what it’s like to be a single parent who is intellectually disabled.
Amazingly, this conversation manages to put that sometimes indescribable bond between a mother and her daughter into words. It also highlights the protective nature of their relationship.
“There were times when we would go out, and people would just blatantly stare, and I would say something,” Myra says in the video.
Every mother-daughter relationship has its ups and down, of course, just like any other relationship. But for this pair, Bonnie’s disability is just one of the things that makes up who they are. We all have stuff to carry, and this is something they both carry, together.
Watch the moving conversation between this mother and her daughter in the video below:
