Episode 363- What Down Syndrome Parenting Taught A Trauma Surgeon with Sean Adelman

Send us Fan Mail A diagnosis can feel like it writes your child’s future in ink, but that story is usually wrong. We sit down with Sean Adelman, an orthopedic trauma surgeon and dad to a daughter with Down syndrome, to talk about what he’s learned outside the textbooks: people are not their worst day, and kids are not their labels. The big throughline is raising expectations, not as pressure, but as possibility. We get personal about how exposure changes fear into understanding. I share how ...