Shelley GrayWorld Down Syndrome Day 2024This year World Down Syndrome Day is calling on us to #EndTheStereotypes.2 min read·Mar 21, 2024----
Shelley GrayA little updateIt’s been another Winter when Rosa’s medical notes feature the term ‘a stormy course’. But outside snowdrops are pushing through and it…2 min read·Feb 5, 2023----
Shelley GrayThe thing that broke my heart… (part two)Heartbroken — a word that’s echoed through the past week as women respond to the overturning of Roe v Wade.2 min read·Jun 29, 2022----
Shelley GraySocks and solidarityThe first blog I wrote about Down’s syndrome — Odd Socks on an Odd Day — was just as we’d all gone into lockdown for the first time. Two…2 min read·Mar 21, 2022----
Shelley GrayBuying timeAt the start of all this we bought time. And now that most of us don’t have to worry too much about what will happen if we get covid, we’re…2 min read·Dec 30, 2021----
Shelley GraySmall World(Originally written on 8 Dec 21, a day when news broke of more parties in №10 during last winter’s lockdown. Feeling furious, and a little…2 min read·Dec 18, 2021----
Shelley GrayFearAs I leave my girl at nursery — the cutest little festive fairy in her Christmas dress — there’s a knot in my stomach. If we stop her…1 min read·Dec 15, 2021----
Shelley GrayA short thread about language & human rights(originally published on Twitter)3 min read·Jul 7, 2021----
Shelley GrayThe thing that broke my heart when Rosa was bornThe thing that broke my heart after Rosa was born wasn’t that she had Down’s syndrome.2 min read·Jul 5, 2021----
