Cicely is an eighteen-year-old woman working an evening shift at her fast-food job that she hates. But it is in what has happened to her that we see that the work she is doing now is just a step in what she has coming next. She is a mother to her little brother Timmy who lives with Autism. For over a year she ignored that Timmy was different. There were telling signs and situations that should have led her to get him tested or get him assistance but as time passed, she ignored and did nothing. Finally, the family doctor told her that he needed to be tested and after the diagnosis she decided what was best was for Cicely to either become his mother or go out at a then fifteen years old and live her best life. Cicely refused to leave her little brother not knowing what was going to happen to him, so she did the only thing she knew to do, she worked. Stepping into the role of his mother she read books, websites, did all of the research she could do to have a better understanding of how Timmy’s mind worked and how she could forever connect with him. It all worked and on her eighteenth birthday she served her mother with custody papers asking her to sign over her parental rights to Timmy. The only thing she wanted was an opportunity to tell her face to face what her decision to stop being a mother did to her children. In a beautiful moment of adulthood, Cicely confronts her mother on the bad decision that she made. But she also tells her that had that not happened she wouldn’t now be a mother of the most wonderful kid in the world, her little brother Timmy.
