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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're sending her these messages:

Your backne is embarrassing.

Your insecurities are more important than other's' insecurities.

When life is unpleasant, you should avoid it. [/quote]

Exactly.

OP, this sends a terrible message to your kid.[/quote]

I don't think any of you remember what it was like to be a 14 year old girl. Or you're men.[/quote]

Try being 14 with a physical disability, that is even more obvious with bare legs.  Scars from surgery on full display, balance issues on a wet pool deck.  Coordination problems making you slower than everyone else while changing especially when cold.  ALWAYS being the last one out of the change room while the rest of the class waited.

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As an aside - my kids and their classmates have been very very supportive of kids with disabilities.  That does not mean that kids with disabilities are suddenly  all happy that they are accepted.  It’s not a Saturday morning cartoon.  But, it is a lot different than 20 years ago.  A quick way to get your ass kicked in most middle and high schools now is to harass a handicapped kid.

A story - when my youngest was in 7th grade a new kid moved in the district.  He was small but that’s not unusual for 7th grade.  He changed for gym class in a bathroom.  Again, different but not unique.  One day fairly early on in the school year though his gym shirt got pulled up exposing a very large scar on his side.  7th grade boys being 7th grade boys were not grossed out.  They wanted to know how he got that.  Turned out, when he was 8, he was bitten by a shark.  He was, of course, immediately nicknamed “Shark Bait”, but everyone, including the girls, thought his scars were cool.

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