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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  During my pregnancy I recall reading that male fetuses are more likely to have issues and less likely make it to delivery than female. Once out of the womb, male babies and children are more likely to have ADHD and Autism and they are more likely to be risk takers. Males are more likely to have certain diseases and so forth.

Well we had many scares when our son was still a fetus and once he was out we dealt with new issues (more likely to occur with boys) for which we have gotten interventions. He's doing well, but some of the things he does make me pray he will make it to adulthood alive and in tact and he is not considered a particularly impulsive or wild child at all. I truly think I will feel so lucky if he can make it to adulthood and thrive with minimal disability. I must sound totally sexist, but I am not as worried about my daughter, other than surviving the pre-teens and teenage years.[/quote]

OP - as a mom with an ADHD son who also has a learning disability, what you expressed is EXACTLY how I feel on a daily basis. Thank you for putting it so eloquently and honestly and for putting yourself out there to be criticized by those with normally developing, athletic, "smart" sons.  They will never know the pain felt when their child struggles to do the simplest things like tying their own shoes at the age of 9. I often wonder how DS will turn out.  God put him in our family for a reason, as he surely would not have survived if he'd been born into the families of some of those whom have already posted their feelings about your statement.

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No one is saying they do not have compassion for boys with disabilities.  OP makes is sound as though [i]all or the majority [/i]of boys have a higher risk of death and disability simply because they are male.  That is the insane part of the post.[/quote]

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