Can we please have a separate Forum for Parents with Special Needs and Disabilities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

Please report those posts because I will be brutal with anyone who acts that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

PP here. Some FB groups allow anonymous posting. See if that’s possible on yours (is on mine). I am sorry you don’t always get the support you want in your fb group. That’s so wrong.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

Please report those posts because I will be brutal with anyone who acts that way.

Ok thank you! It’s new to me so I’m not always good at advocating for myself there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

TBF, the ADA should be scaled back OP was clearly a selfish asshat.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent who has a congenital, permanent physical disability. I have found a lot of support in Facebook groups dedicated to my condition. Just a suggestion for others.

Me too. The only difference is that they aren't anonymous.
But like PP, I've been shamed and blitzed for mentioning my disability a few times. I think/hope the kids with special needs forum is respectful because they're children but I've been taken completely off guard with some nastiness when mentioning my disability. And then you see a "The ADA should scaled back" post and...sigh.

Please report those posts because I will be brutal with anyone who acts that way.

This is good to know. It's much easier though, to report a homophobe or a racist or sexist poster who is an offense to many, than one who is attacking you personally for this kind of reason.

[Anonymous]

I’ll take one for the team and post about my chronic illness if I know it’ll be for the greater good.

But I wonder: when I have a question about my illness impacting my kids, I usually put it in the parenting forum. Would health be a better one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll take one for the team and post about my chronic illness if I know it’ll be for the greater good.

But I wonder: when I have a question about my illness impacting my kids, I usually put it in the parenting forum. Would health be a better one?

OP here. Thank you for going first. I find it hard to share initially, but if you start the thread, I will follow. Just, if you don’t mind posting here the link or name of the forum, once you do. I had the same question of where to post. I thought of posting under “Parenting -Special Concerns”. Whatever you decide, just let us know where to look for your post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll take one for the team and post about my chronic illness if I know it’ll be for the greater good.

But I wonder: when I have a question about my illness impacting my kids, I usually put it in the parenting forum. Would health be a better one?

I just put a topic/question in General Parenting.