“I think her story is particularly moving, and I think it demonstrates resilience pretty much every single day.”—Future Women founder and author of Liz’ chapter, Helen McCabe

When the doctor first walked into Liz Cole’s hospital room after her son was born, instead of joy, the room felt sombre. Instead of congratulations, she was met with an apology. The doctor seemed upset to tell her that her newborn son, David, had been diagnosed with Down Syndrome. “He told me that I should ‘try to love him if you can’. He then handed me the most awful reading material, You and Your Mongoloid Child, written in 1963, featuring some severe cases of Down syndrome.” Liz Cole recounts in Untold Resilience.