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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the type to be worked up over various child-related things,  and it's entirely because my first child was born with special needs, and we have always struggled to address them, and tweaked diets, activities, therapies, for a long time to figure out whether it helped or not. As a result, we knew what we wanted for our subsequent children (where the good activities where, what schools we liked, etc).

Looking back, I'm certain other parents backed off when my first was little and I was desperate for solutions, and talking about it non-stop! Indeed, one friend made a really nice comment to warn me I wasn't talking about anything else. Perhaps you want to say something like that? I realized at that moment that I should keep a lot of my thoughts and research to myself, because it wasn't fair to others without the same concerns. It also meant a certain distance, since I haven't met anyone at all, in my nearly 17 years of parenting this kid now, who has a child with the same issues. But that's life.

Bottom line is, you can keep these friends but perhaps they won't be your best friends in a few years...

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