It is a miracle/ blessing when males survive and reach adulthood with minimal or no disability

[Anonymous]

During my pregnancy I recall reading that male fetuses are more likely to have issues and less likely make it to delivery than female. Once out of the womb, male babies and children are more likely to have ADHD and Autism and they are more likely to be risk takers. Males are more likely to have certain diseases and so forth.

Well we had many scares when our son was still a fetus and once he was out we dealt with new issues (more likely to occur with boys) for which we have gotten interventions. He's doing well, but some of the things he does make me pray he will make it to adulthood alive and in tact and he is not considered a particularly impulsive or wild child at all. I truly think I will feel so lucky if he can make it to adulthood and thrive with minimal disability. I must sound totally sexist, but I am not as worried about my daughter, other than surviving the pre-teens and teenage years.

[Anonymous]

I think you are the one with some problems. Get a grip!

[Anonymous]

Oh my lord. You need help, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you are the one with some problems. Get a grip!

Consider yourself lucky if your kids were born healthy and without disability and if they aren't risk takers. Just curious, do you have kids? If so, are they all healthy and disability free? What gender? Have they ever made choices that could have been life-threatening?

I hope you never have to experience almost losing a child in the womb, having a terrible labor, wondering if your newborn is going to make it, having your child diagnosed with a disability which is probably 5 times more likely in boys and then sitting in the ER wishing your child didn't make a particular choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you are the one with some problems. Get a grip!

Consider yourself lucky if your kids were born healthy and without disability and if they aren't risk takers. Just curious, do you have kids? If so, are they all healthy and disability free? What gender? Have they ever made choices that could have been life-threatening?

I hope you never have to experience almost losing a child in the womb, having a terrible labor, wondering if your newborn is going to make it, having your child diagnosed with a disability which is probably 5 times more likely in boys and then sitting in the ER wishing your child didn't make a particular choice.

I'm not the one you quoted but you really sounds mental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you are the one with some problems. Get a grip!

Consider yourself lucky if your kids were born healthy and without disability and if they aren't risk takers. Just curious, do you have kids? If so, are they all healthy and disability free? What gender? Have they ever made choices that could have been life-threatening?

What are you talking about - choices that could have been life-threatening? You do sound a bit mental.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't call it a miracle, I'd call it the norm. But I can understand how your perspective would be skewed if you have had a series of bad experiences with your son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: During my pregnancy I recall reading that male fetuses are more likely to have issues and less likely make it to delivery than female. Once out of the womb, male babies and children are more likely to have ADHD and Autism and they are more likely to be risk takers. Males are more likely to have certain diseases and so forth.

Well we had many scares when our son was still a fetus and once he was out we dealt with new issues (more likely to occur with boys) for which we have gotten interventions. He's doing well, but some of the things he does make me pray he will make it to adulthood alive and in tact and he is not considered a particularly impulsive or wild child at all. I truly think I will feel so lucky if he can make it to adulthood and thrive with minimal disability. I must sound totally sexist, but I am not as worried about my daughter, other than surviving the pre-teens and teenage years.

OP - as a mom with an ADHD son who also has a learning disability, what you expressed is EXACTLY how I feel on a daily basis. Thank you for putting it so eloquently and honestly and for putting yourself out there to be criticized by those with normally developing, athletic, "smart" sons. They will never know the pain felt when their child struggles to do the simplest things like tying their own shoes at the age of 9. I often wonder how DS will turn out. God put him in our family for a reason, as he surely would not have survived if he'd been born into the families of some of those whom have already posted their feelings about your statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: During my pregnancy I recall reading that male fetuses are more likely to have issues and less likely make it to delivery than female. Once out of the womb, male babies and children are more likely to have ADHD and Autism and they are more likely to be risk takers. Males are more likely to have certain diseases and so forth.

Well we had many scares when our son was still a fetus and once he was out we dealt with new issues (more likely to occur with boys) for which we have gotten interventions. He's doing well, but some of the things he does make me pray he will make it to adulthood alive and in tact and he is not considered a particularly impulsive or wild child at all. I truly think I will feel so lucky if he can make it to adulthood and thrive with minimal disability. I must sound totally sexist, but I am not as worried about my daughter, other than surviving the pre-teens and teenage years.

OP - as a mom with an ADHD son who also has a learning disability, what you expressed is EXACTLY how I feel on a daily basis. Thank you for putting it so eloquently and honestly and for putting yourself out there to be criticized by those with normally developing, athletic, "smart" sons. They will never know the pain felt when their child struggles to do the simplest things like tying their own shoes at the age of 9. I often wonder how DS will turn out. God put him in our family for a reason, as he surely would not have survived if he'd been born into the families of some of those whom have already posted their feelings about your statement.

No one is saying they do not have compassion for boys with disabilities. OP makes is sound as though all or the majority of boys have a higher risk of death and disability simply because they are male. That is the insane part of the post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: During my pregnancy I recall reading that male fetuses are more likely to have issues and less likely make it to delivery than female. Once out of the womb, male babies and children are more likely to have ADHD and Autism and they are more likely to be risk takers. Males are more likely to have certain diseases and so forth.

Well we had many scares when our son was still a fetus and once he was out we dealt with new issues (more likely to occur with boys) for which we have gotten interventions. He's doing well, but some of the things he does make me pray he will make it to adulthood alive and in tact and he is not considered a particularly impulsive or wild child at all. I truly think I will feel so lucky if he can make it to adulthood and thrive with minimal disability. I must sound totally sexist, but I am not as worried about my daughter, other than surviving the pre-teens and teenage years.

OP - as a mom with an ADHD son who also has a learning disability, what you expressed is EXACTLY how I feel on a daily basis. Thank you for putting it so eloquently and honestly and for putting yourself out there to be criticized by those with normally developing, athletic, "smart" sons. They will never know the pain felt when their child struggles to do the simplest things like tying their own shoes at the age of 9. I often wonder how DS will turn out. God put him in our family for a reason, as he surely would not have survived if he'd been born into the families of some of those whom have already posted their feelings about your statement.

That's a bit over the top. You have no idea how any poster would deal with the kind of situation you and your son are in. The statement that it is a 'miracle/blessing' that males become adults without a disability is not accurate. It is the norm, not a miracle. I am sorry that not every child is healthy, but the majority do survive and thrive - even male children.

[Anonymous]

I'm calling sock puppet on 11:36. Jeff?

I'm also getting a big kick out of this: "he surely would not have survived if he'd been born into the families of some of those whom have already posted their feelings about your statement."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you are the one with some problems. Get a grip!

Consider yourself lucky if your kids were born healthy and without disability and if they aren't risk takers. Just curious, do you have kids? If so, are they all healthy and disability free? What gender? Have they ever made choices that could have been life-threatening?

I hope you never have to experience almost losing a child in the womb, having a terrible labor, wondering if your newborn is going to make it, having your child diagnosed with a disability which is probably 5 times more likely in boys and then sitting in the ER wishing your child didn't make a particular choice.

Get some meds, would you? Or else your kids for sure will be a mess.

[Anonymous]

^presumably healthy males at that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^presumably healthy males at that

This was a continuation of 11:41

[Anonymous]

You know what's a miracle? It's a miracle that so man girls make it to adulthood in many part of the world:

http://www.halftheskymovement.org/

(But the real story is how many girls DO NOT make it to adulthood in the most repressive parts of the world.)