Knows

My brother who I told you died, his daughter's grown. She's thirty-five. She's grown but she's a child because she's got that syndrome, what's-it-called, it's like she's happy all the time. Not Asperger's. What is that called? It's like she can't be sad. It's strange. Autism. Down ’s. It's really strange. Down Syndrome. Right. So anyway, her father died, my brother who I told you died. That's his daughter, she's my niece, and we were worried how to tell her her dad had died because we didn't know how she'd react. And then my other niece, her sister, she's the younger one bu t in a way she's always been the older one, she's who told her. She just told her. She told us she just told her that their dad had died. They just went in her room, the one with Down’s, her room, they just went in and closed the door and sat down on the bed and she said she's my sister so I just told her Dad had died, our dad had died. She didn't cry or anything. But she, she said it doesn't mean she wasn't sad, so I don't know. She knows her best since that's her sister, that's why she's the one who really knows. That's how she knows.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research