Pam Brink is a mother from Marco Island, Fla., with a son who has some less-than-common characteristics — he’s 29 years old, but he has the body of a 10-year-old and the mental development of a child even younger.
Brink is a member of one family featured on the TLC show “My 40-Year-Old Child,” which documents a rare and mysterious ailment that stunts development during childhood. She and her son joined HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill and another family from the show to talk about what their children’s conditions have meant for their families.
Brink said her son Jeffrey Alarid was diagnosed after she noticed he wasn’t aging the way he was supposed to and was suffering from several severe handicaps.
“It was hard because there’s a lot of challenges with taking care of a baby, which is what Jeffrey really is,” she said. “He’s probably between eight and 12 months as far as needing to be taken care of.”
Source: Huffington Post
