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[quote=Anonymous]When i'm chatting with another mom from school or someone else who doesn't know DS's official diagnosis, and the convo is casual enough that i don't feel like dropping in fancy diagnoses or formal terms (that can change the mood really fast), i just say that DS has "some additional needs" or "some special needs". Seems like use of the word "some" softens the term and is absolutely still an accurate description of what's going on (he DOES have some special or additional needs relative to other kids).  It somehow seems a little less aggressive than saying "he is special needs".

I don't really give a shit about all the nomenclature though, and mostly like to keep diagnoses to ourselves. Much like if someone has some other medical disease, they don't go around dropping the diagnosis in every random conversation; but if it comes up organically (like, why you won't be able to attend that event next week) people would say "oh i've got some medical stuff going on....".  [/quote]

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