All the cool kids have it...

So we volunteered at church today.

I packed our lunch as per usual.
We sat in the restaurant area to eat.

There is a sweet older woman cleaning tables who clearly has a disability. She came up to us last friday and asked if Dakota was 7. I said why yes he is. And then she walked away.

 Today she came up and started talking about random stuff. Telling us she found a toe nail in her McDonalds ( while we were eating ew) and how she works very hard at this job and how her mom got it for her by stopping in to see if the church needed help.

She then was watching Dakota very carefully.
She asked me, "Is he retarded too?"
I stopped chewing and froze. I looked at her.
She said, "I'm retarded, disabled. Is he too?"
I was speechless. I froze. I sat there.
She asked again. "Is he?"
I said, Oh Dakota? Oh he has Down syndrome."
She said " Oh thats what I have too"

I honestly couldnt tell she had Ds. I knew it was something, but my Ds radar didnt pick up on it.

I said, "Oh cool! All the cool kids have it."

She snorted, washed the table next to us and walked away. I was sad for her. She thought she was retarded. But how could I argue. How could I explain. I didnt know what to do, I froze.

I waved to her as we left for the day and she waved back and continued cleaning her tables.