My 3-year-old is realizing her older brothers with DMD are different

“Glass children don’t want to burden their parents, so they prefer not to confide in them,” says director Marie-Magdalena Kochová. In the documentary film The Other, she reveals what people experience growing up with siblings with disabilities.

My 3-year-old is realizing her older brothers with DMD are different

“Mommy, hold me. Mommy, hold me.” These were the words I heard repeatedly from my 3-year-old daughter, Callie, during the four days we spent in the neuromuscular clinic with her older brothers last week. It wasn’t normal for her to want to be held. I’ve never traveled with a stroller for her because she prefers to ride on the footrests of her brothers’ power wheelchairs. Max, 19, Rowen, 16, and Charlie, 14, are all living with Duchenne muscular …