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[quote=Anonymous]May I offer my perspective? Premature babies used to die. Often. Now we save many of those fragile children, who go on to have special needs at a higher rate. Furthermore, kids with special needs used to be hidden away. For both of these reasons, older people sometimes have less experience and compassion with our kids. This kind of it-takes-a-village mentality might have been helpful when dealing with my NT kid. It would be hell when dealing with my child with multiple special needs. However, fifty years ago, my special needs child would have died at birth. I’m not wording it well, but I think that’s why the people who do this to me are often older. I know for damn sure they don’t have a neurodivergent kid. In their world, they’re being “helpful”. I don’t have the right words myself, but it helps ME to think that they’re trying to help, unless the judgement is unavoidable. [/quote]
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