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Dr Carr flipped through her notebook “Let’s talk about Shawn”

I shook ood mother I love my little boy”

“No one is questioning that”

“Then ould you bring him up?”

“Because last week youcomment You said now Malcolm knows, and you don’t want Shawn to be treated differently because of it” She paused

I shifted inAn unfounded fear”

“You talked to Malcolm about this fear and worked out whatever it was?” The way she put emphasis on it wasn’t missed on me

I sat back and crossed an to bounce “Not exactly We’ve talked about a lot of topics over the last week, but my worries about Shaere put to rest”

Dr Carr placed her notebook on the side table then sat back in her chair She took off her glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose for athem back on “Remember when I asked you to really think about what you were afraid of?”

I thought back, trying to recall that particular session I started nodding as the ency session

“Did you ever identify that fear?”

I sat forward, with ed ain “Um…” I sat up to look at her “Yeah, maybe”

She cocked her head to the side “Maybe?”

I let out a heavy sigh “Ninety-nine percent of the time I felt like a fraud Like I said, they wanted est fear was having so vulnerable”

“What does that word mean to you?”