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looking at it. this may be the most wonderful place on earth, tell us how it came to be. >> thank you jason. back in 2005 i decided to retire and i knew i wanted to get involved in something and what i wanted to get involved in was assisting individuals with special needs and disabilities and the reason for that was because i'm blessed with a daughter who has special need. both cognitive and physical. her name is morgan and she's now 29 years old and she's a wonderful young lady. my wife and i are blessed to have her because she has really opened our eyes with this life. and really changed our lives in 70 positive ways. but in 2006 we were on a vacation and we noticed morgan was not allowed an opportunity to engage and play simply because she was not able to be verbal and interact in what would be seen as a normal way. so we kept talking about it and
we have been blessed but many of those with special needs and disabilities don't and so we don't want to have another barrier a financial barrier so everything that we do to assist our friends with special needs and disabilities is free. and morgan, if they are charged a small fee to participate is very low we really are not here to make money and we are here to serve our friends with special names and disabilities in the entire community coming together inclusion. >> when i think that that is the point right, and i think that any community around this country, they've got to look at what you are doing because you're bringing two people together and the kids don't care, but if they grow up that way, then they are going to be better adults outweigh then the people of san antonio texas are very blessed important argument, of morgan's wonderland and merry christmas to you and your wife of course morgan and appreciate you to make the world a better place and is truly one of the wonderful places that i have ever heard look forward to actually using there someday.
needs medical therapeutic and social determinants of health, there's more to come, because then he is great, and it is all about inclusive and it's all about making sure that 50 percent of the population has sometimes they do not feel like they are always can be included, should be included helps their self-esteem and it helps of us as a community, i would just getting started because, we believe that her friends with special needs and disabilities, deserve this opportunity and so this was something that was started to be 12 years ago that we were going where we will be 12 years from now is just unimaginable and because people have come together to make this happen. >> and would you charging these people do you in the door because a place like disneyland, is really expensive. >> let's one of the things that we make sure that we do not charge, those with special needs don't get charged anything, the sports facility at morgan's wonderland in any of these facilities because it's already can be a barrier for them and morgan is one of the talking points, she has a opportunities because of our parents because
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and that's sort of how this all evolved for me. i became aware that morgan essentially had a separate identity. all online that i wasn't aware of. >> a secret online identity hidden from parents. this is the dark side of the internet. many teens now have multiple online accounts, a public one and a private one for a select group of people. they exist across platforms. facebook, tumblr, twitter. but they're most common on instagram where they're known as finstas or fake instagrams. and while it's called fake don't be thrown. what kids post there can often be more real than their public accounts.
be the first one i would go to. >> what do you miss most about morgan? >> everything. it's actually really hard because i -- sorry. >> it's okay, honey. >> i imagine when we were younger i imagined going through life but -- my entire life was her i imagined graduating high school together. everything. like it might sound silly but i imagined her being my maid of honor and everything like all of this we had planned out. like we thought about everything and it's just weird not having her there. >> leah and morgan were as close as could be. so in middle school morgan revealed she was struggling, leah was there for her.
♪ in a small town in rural wisconsin, a young girl has died. it's left a community reeling. and a mother searching for answers. >> she was such a pretty girl, chris. >> thank you. loved the water. she loved the beach, the ocean. >> was she a pretty happy kid? >> she was a very happy kid and she would make others laugh. this was her and i on her eighth grade graduation. that's one of my favorite pictures now. >> morgan was chris' youngest daughter. >> hi, mgan. look at her smiling so big. >> bubbly and affectionate, she always focused on making others happy.
how would you describe morgan as a little girl? >> she was very sensitive. if we were out on a walk and i would step on an ant hill on the sidewalk and she'd just look at me and she'd say, mom, don't you know how hard they work? don't step on those. she was beautiful. and amazing. and she made this world better. she was the best of me. >> three years ago on june 25th, 2015, at the age of just 15, chris' daughter morgan took her own life. >> i mean, as a parent, how did i miss it? how didn't i know? i have training in what to look for.
instead of sunny photos featuring our bestselves it's a digital underground where kids confess their deepest and darkest. a side most parents know nothing about. when you really stop and think about it do you think you're addicted to your phones? >> yes, yes. >> yeah. >> these were morgan's friends, a group of teen girls from town who knew her better than most. >> do you think a lot of kids have additional accounts to express other aspects of their lives that may not be so rosie? >> it's like the personal parts of you. instead of just what you show people. >> there was a time where i had an instagram page like that where i would just post a bunch of really sad quotes all the time. i don't really know why. >> i had a tumblr like that, too. one of my first ones.