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[quote=Anonymous]The birthday party invites are coming in fast and furious and seems like every child was born in February, March or April.  And birthday parties just are not that great for my DC, who has developmental delays.  I feel like it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.  We can't go to all the parties because it's just too much for our DC but I feel badly about declining any invitations and worry about trying to figure out whose party we go to and whose we don't.  I feel like we have to go to at least some of the parties but stress about the possible scenarios in anticipation -- DC doesn't understand the games and won't participate, DC is unable to attend to entertainment (like magicians) so DC wanders around and gets antsy, DC is shy about new experiences so clings to me and won't try to climb, swing, dance, fill-in-the-blank about whatever activity is scheduled.   DC doesn't really play with toys so I'm out of the loop as far as what toys kids DCs age are actually playing with and wind up spending a lot of time stressing about what might be an appropriate gift and how much to spend.  It also doesn't help that I'm extremely shy and only recently discovered that there's some rule about only one parent bringing a child to a party, so now I'm freaked about having to go to the parties by myself and try to socialize with other parents who I don't know without the crutch of having someone I do know there to make it a little easier (DH).  Plus, the venues and scope of activities just keep escalating every year so they are total extravaganzas and I worry about whether DC notices that we don't do such elaborate things to celebrate DCs birthday (we pretty much just do family celebrations, but that's mostly because both sides of the family are local).  Sorry, I know I sound like a tool and I do recognize that this all about my own issues and anxieties.  I'm just venting.  But I do really hate this time of year.  Sigh.[/quote]

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