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Mindy Scheier

Mindy Scheier

Fashion designer

May 25, 2026

23:47
No mess
23:48
... literally no rule book on being the parent of a child with a disability, and I really didn't have anybody in my family or my husband's family that had disabilities, so we were learning as we go.
24:04
Try, just trying to do the best that we could, and always very, um, committed to keeping his life as typical, as normal as we could.
24:16
Treating him the same way as my daughter, that, you know, as my younger son when he came to town.
24:23
Um, but when Oliver was eight years old-He came home from school and said, "Mom, I'm really sick of wearing sweatpants every day." Um, but he had to because he couldn't do buttons and zippers.
24:38
He couldn't fit jeans over his leg braces, and in order for him to go to the bathroom on his own, he had to wear sweatpants.
24:47
But he came home from school and said, "I, I really, really wanna wear jeans like everybody else gets to wear." And it was a true humongous kick-in-the-stomach moment, not only as somebody that dedicated her career to the fashion industry, but also as a mom, that I, I couldn't solve it, number one.

15 MINS LATER

40:29
Okay, so when you said, like, this is a bigger problem, we need to find clothing that can fit other individuals, where did you take this to make it bigger? Like you're like, "Okay, I started off with a pair of, like, scissors and, like, Velcro." But when were you like, "Okay, this is, like, a legit systematic problem," what was your next steps?

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