As a family we have made a sustained effort, expanded on a daily basis over the last 11 years, to support our son, JT, to “get a life”. Nothing that we have done in our professional work has been as challenging or as rewarding as discovering the authentic meaning of “comprehensive lifestyle support” that is present on a day-to-day basis. Our journey toward attaining this goal has been both harder and easier than we ever imagined. In this article, we describe JT's life as it is today and review the lessons we have learned, hopeful that our successes and failures, and our process, will be useful to others.
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