Please share stupid things well-meaning parents of typically developing kids have said to you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh he's going to be fine. He'll be a sweet nerd who will get an engineering degree and find a nice wife who thinks he's great.

(My child has HFA). If/when this doesn't come true may I take your crystal ball and shove it up your....? Way to make a child's daily struggles into something trivial and minor.

Sometimes I try to remind myself of this. Because I have to have hope that my kid with HFA will be okay if we can get him to adulthood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohhh he's going to be fine. He'll be a sweet nerd who will get an engineering degree and find a nice wife who thinks he's great.

(My child has HFA). If/when this doesn't come true may I take your crystal ball and shove it up your....? Way to make a child's daily struggles into something trivial and minor.

Sometimes I try to remind myself of this. Because I have to have hope that my kid with HFA will be okay if we can get him to adulthood.

+1 This is hopeful to me too. DS has Asperger's and I look at family members whose symptoms were/are worse and they turned out fine. I don't think saying this trivializes the problems that DS faces at all b/c there's some truth to it and I know people say it to make ME feel better even if they are minimizing the challenges DS faces: Ex. His OT said DS will end up at MIT someday even though he couldn't dress himself when he was 4.

[Anonymous]

"It is going to be very embarrassing if DD does the same thing in school or away from home."

Thanks, I had not thought of that myself... ERRRRR