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[quote=Anonymous]I commend you for thinking about adopting a special needs child.

However, I have mixed feelings about people reading glossy, beautifully photographed online blogs of special needs kids and their siblings, which are certainly fun, and then taking on notions about the lives of special needs families or endorsing special needs adoption based on those blogs.

There are pages and pages of controversy threads on here about Kelle Hampton, for instance, and whether her blog represents the reality of life with a special needs child.

I have yet to see an online blog of special needs kids with a beautifully photographed post about spending hours with your severely constipated child on the toilet; a post about the hours spent trying to teach that child the alphabet; his drool soaked stacks of bibs and the multiple changes of clothing a day; a post about the hours long IEP meeting and its brain-numbing boredom; the blogger and her husband fighting about who is going to stay home from work because the child is sick yet again.

I love and adore my special needs child and have a rock solid commitment to my marriage.  But I am not about to blow sunshine up peoples asses with some candyland blog about my special needs child.

If you want to adopt a special needs child, don't do it because some blog makes it look like a Disney movie.[/quote]

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