We've said the same thing to Christina (5 yrs): "everybody walking this planet has some kind of issue to deal with---and you don't always see it". It's obvious to a child that someone in a wheelchair or a neighborhood child with autism has "an issue"....but I wanted her to know that lots of people have things that you can't see on the outside....and it's not always a physical/medical issue. She wanted to know what Katie (8 yr, non-CAH sister) has to deal with. That's a toughie......Katie seems "perfect". Katie's issue is that she tries too hard to get people to like her....even to the point of being mean (backwards, I know....but she'll be mean to somebody that she THINKS is going to be mean to her). It's a REAL issue for Katie, and she can't take pills 3x a day to help. We're working with and praying for both our daughters and their 'issues' Parenthood is everything rolled into one: extreme joy, extreme sorrow....depths of feelings we might never experience without them. (of course, now they're downstairs fighting over the TV and one of them hit the other and it is sounding very UNjoyful at this moment!) :)Karen