Joshua Myers, 29, has Down syndrome. These days, he considers it a gift — but he didn't always.
"At first," he says, "I thought it was a curse."
In fact, the condition proved so overwhelming for Myers that, once, he even walked out into the middle of a busy intersection, hoping that a car would hit him and end his life. But a stranger stopped for him. She brought him into her car to talk things through.
Myers hasn't seen her since.