‘Humans of New York’ profiles selfless dad who refused abortion for special needs son
A Monday entry depicted a father and his fifth son, Ibrahim, who has an unspecified special needs condition. “I love him a little more because he needs it a little more,” he explained. Doctors recommended an abortion, which he “wouldn’t hear.”
“He was only three pounds when he was born. He needed half a liter of milk per day. I’d skip my own breakfast just to buy it for him,” the father recalls.
“I took him to nurseries when he was very young because I wanted him to be comfortable with other children.
I found a charity that offered speech classes, and I took him five days a week.”
The man is happy to give Ibrahim, who is his “whole world,” “anything that I have,” but fears for a future when he’s no longer there to do so.
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