If you are a direct support professional long enough, you’ll have moments that stick with you. Not the social worker who says “client” twenty-seven times. Not the person who talks about risk with no mention of joy. Not the house rules on the fridge that read like a court order. Not the email chain about whether love is “allowed.” Not even the meeting about someone's life that they weren't invited to. No. What I’m talking about are the moments where you’re standing in a kitchen and someone is mak