At 6, I Promised My Best Friend with Down Syndrome We’d Go to Prom Together – 12 Years Later, Mom Said I Could Go with Him Only on One Condition

because both of us kept choosing it.

I Realized I Had Been Choosing Him for Years

No one asked me to wait for Noah after practice.

No one asked me to defend him when people misunderstood him.

No one asked me to rearrange weekends so we could be together.

No one asked me to know exactly when his silence meant he was angry and when it meant he was hurting.continue reading …