Martha Beck

Hello, the famous and yet mysterious sister.

Behind the sister word.

joy and peace during that time goodness this is blowing my freaking mind because i've you know i read about you and you were there and now i feel like i'm time traveling back to the woman i was reading about and now we're in the same room only i don't know it until what like 20 years later i may just have to go lie down for a while like i'm not sure i can continue but

Yeah, I was I was born in a faculty brat family, so I thought academia was all that.

And I just kept going to school and I went to Harvard.

for BA, MA, PhD.

And in the middle of my PhD program, I'd gotten married.

I was pregnant with my second child.

And about six months into the pregnancy, we had an amniocentesis and it turned out he had Down syndrome.

And I had like a week to choose whether or not to terminate.

I am

Very outspokenly pro-choice, but I couldn't do it.

I was already in love with him.

So, plus I'd been having these weird experiences from the moment I got pregnant.

I was, I'll just say it.

I'd have psychic experiences.

Like there was something weird about the kid.

And there still is today.

And he's 33.

I went against all my advisors advice and I kept him.