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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]   I have vented about this before. We have been at this since DC was 15 months old. We were on top of interventions and we get input from top notch professionals over the years (dev ped, ST, neurologist, etc). DC has made great progress, even better than expected. I welcome feedback from teachers too because they deal with my kid every day and may see things I don't. However....over the years I have encountered a handful of SN moms who are way into my business imposing their unsolicited advice and not giving up no matter what you say.

I had a mom of a child with ASD keep pushing how amazing self-contained was for her kid and I should really consider it. She barely knows my kid. The only thing she knows is my kid has HFA and I truly regret sharing it because she is now fixated on this. Mainstream has worked well academically and socially with some bumps and there are not behavioral issues.

There is a mom of a child with totally different special needs who is convinced my child would be a social super star if I did x, y and z....we have and DC isn't. This mom then has other ideas. I didn't ask her. She barely knows my kid other than what her kid with totally different issues says. I run into this woman everywhere and I try to politely shut her down to no avail. I know her heart is in the right place. She is way to obsessed with my kid.

I even had this when my kid was a toddler with another mom who's kid is on the spectrum. She insisted she knew everything, told me all the things my kid would never do and all the things I must do. I feel for her because her kid is older and this is many years later. He never learned to read and is struggling. Mine is on grade level. She was convinced she was the expert on my kid and I literally had to turn my cart the other direction and hide if I saw her in the grocery store back in the day because she was so fixated.

It hasn't been that many people, but those few cannot let it go.. Iit really is obnoxious when a special needs mom thinks she has a world renowned expert with all the answers. Anyone else deal with this? What has worked to shut it down with out hurting the other person?[/quote]

Well,  you either have an actual magnet of bad humans stuck to your butt or the HFA is inherited and you misread people's tone and intentions often.[/quote]

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