Before we entered, I thought about telling our son the truth.

“This place won’t welcome you. It will be confusing and disorienting. You will need to beg for help. They will assume that you have no clue what you are doing. The aisles will scream, ‘You don’t belong here.’ You will feel invisible, just because of who you are.”

I wanted to tell him all of those things, but some of life’s hardest lessons you need to discover for yourself.

Then we entered Joann Fabrics.