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[quote=Anonymous]My DD had or has hypotonia and was in twice-weekly PT up until she turned 3.   It was painful,’frustrating, and on some level I know I am not over how hard it was from start to finish - took a long time for assessmemts and diagnosis, our phys therapists weren’t great.  But she walks, talks, and is in preschool FT now, though I am at home.

She just isn’t as with-it as ANY of the other kids and its very frustrating and painful.  She has a birthday that places her as the youngest and because we are going to be in publics, she always will be.  She is the only child in her 3s who is totally not potty trained.  She resists it so I have tabled it.  She is extremely sensitive, whiny, and gives up on new things instantly - this was true with PT and dealing with her and the consequent attitude of her therapists was so hard.  She is, at 3.5, obsessed with mirrors and herself.   With baby pictures of herself.  With reflextive surfaces: we pass stores on the walk to preschool and she turns and watches herself as I push her.  She has plenty of words but seems inarticulate and reverts to baby talk, to where I, my husband, and even other loved ones get visibly frustrated.

Everyone but me thinks its being 3.  No more.  And that all kids grow in their own way.  But I live in a high-achievement enclave with uber babies and toddlers and K and unders who are so smart and advanced and mine isnt.  Is that what’s going on?   Am I imagining problems because I see extremely coordinated, socially aware, super smart kids and mine isnt?  No one suggests an evaluation and my DH is livid at any suggestion of it - I had to deal with the PT all alone.

I feel like my DD and I are in a lonely place.  We are possibly really not in a SN space, but we don’t keep pace at all in the fast-paced, accelerated achievement world that is the new normal, at all.[/quote]

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