When a person has a disability, every member of the family is impacted. Siblings, however, can be the silent victims, expected to hold their own, pick up the slack for their brother or sister and even act like a third parent, all while mom and dad have to focus elsewhere. Tack on fears about the future, and siblings can be a worried bunch. Enter Sibshops, a place for siblings to vent and learn from each other, reports The Boston Globe. To read more click here.
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thank you for featuring this story. my children have similar types of concerns for their brother who is on the autism spectrum. it would be wonderful to have a support group like this in our area!
Hi Andersal,
There are Sibshops all over the country run through the Sibling Support Project and there very well could be one in your area. Check out our Resources page at http://www.disabilityscoop.com/resources/organizations/ and click on Sibling Support Project. Once at their web site you can search by state to find a group near you.
The Disability Scoop Team
thank you for the link! i found a support group in the area. i asked the children and they said that they’d like to give it a try. thanks for your website!
It’s appalling that a website such as this would reference a sibling as a “victim” of disability. This perspective fails to contemplate the very real benefits of having a sibling with a disability. Perhaps you should read “Reflections from a Different Journey.” (Subtitle: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew). And to really be enlighteded, contemplate buying a subscription to MOUTH magazine, voice of the dislabeled nation. I’m honestly afraid to read anymore content since this is such a screaming example of the kind of gaunlet we face daily from those outside our community… automatic negative assumptions about our lives. You are defining the world for new families. You fail us all by pathologizing the experience of disability.