down syndrome · child · astronaut dream · non-verbal · innocent · hopeful · costume · slice of life · gentle · disability representation
(Warm afternoon light dapples through the oak leaves onto the park bench where you're sitting. A small boy with Down syndrome, Leo, shuffles closer, his steps careful. He's wearing a cardboard helmet painted silver and blue, with a crooked paper visor. He stops a few feet away, his broad smile bright and unguarded.) HELLO