Download PDF by Paul Austin: Beautiful Eyes: A Father Transformed

Through parenting a toddler with a incapacity, a father discovers endurance, recognition, and unconditional love.

In 1987, Paul Austin and his spouse Sally have been newlyweds, eager about their destiny jointly and fortunately awaiting the delivery in their first baby. He was once a scientific scholar and he or she was once a nurse.

Everything replaced the instant the health care professional rushed their child daughter from the room simply after her beginning, figuring out immediately that whatever was once incorrect. Sarah had almond-shaped eyes, a unmarried crease throughout her palm rather than 3, and low-set ears—all of which advised that the newborn had Down syndrome.

Beginning at the day Sarah is born and finishing whilst she is a tender grownup residing in a bunch domestic, Beautiful Eyes is the tale of a father's trip towards recognition of a kid who's diversified. In a voice that's unflinchingly sincere and unerringly compassionate, Austin chronicles his existence together with his daughter: looking at her discover ways to stroll and speak and shape her personal critiques, making judgements approximately her destiny, and navigating cultural assumptions and prejudices—all the whereas confronting, with poignancy and relocating candor, his personal boundaries as her father.

It is Sarah herself, who, in her personal coming of age and her personal reconciling together with her distinction, teaches her father to appreciate her. many times, she surprises him: appearing girl Gaga’s "Poker Face" at a expertise express; explaining how the note "retarded" is hurtful; reacting to the occasions of her existence with a mix of love, ache, and humor; and insisting on her personal humanity in a global that questions it. As Sarah starts to blossom into herself, her father learns to appear previous his daughter’s incapacity and notice her because the lively, warmhearted, and uniquely clever individual she is.