Judy May realized she needed help when she heard her 53-year-old son, who has Down syndrome, sobbing in his room after yet another shouting match over the blue Oxford shirt he refused to change.
May, 80, had been caring for her son for about a year and a half after moving to Hood River from California, and Robbie May was becoming increasingly stubborn. She responded in kind, insisting he do the things she thought he had to do, the tension escalating into yelling.