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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gee. My dream was that my child would be able to hear. She is not able to do that. People like you make me sick, OP.[/quote]

+1 I honestly thought when I read the title of this thread that it would be from a special needs parent trying to grapple with the idea that their child will never go to college or have a typical adult experience. Please recognize your good fortune OP. 
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This, exactly. OP, you are very blessed.[/quote]

WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD SOMEONE COME TO A COLLEGE FORUM AND THINK FOR A SPLIT MINUTE THAT THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH A PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED CHILD? MAJOR DISCONNECT, THIS THREAD IS ODD VERY ODD. WHILE I AM VERY SORRY FOR THE PARENTS OF A CHILD WHO CANNOT HEAR, THIS IS A RATHER RANDOM PLACE TO COME AND ASSUME THATS WHATS BEING DISCUSSED.[/quote]

No need to shout, but I agree. This is not the thread to discuss your SN child and how sad you are about it. There is a SN forum.[/quote]

Kids with special needs can go to college too, you know. And parents of kids with special needs are allowed to read and comment on non-SN threads (and to use the Recent Posts feature, as I do, which means you don't pay as much attention to the forum name.) The title of OP's post did sound like something that should be on the SN board.

And more importantly, people like the OP could certainly use the perspective that people are forced to gain when their child has SN or another serious challenge. [/quote]

Another PP here.  I have a special needs child among my 4 children.  TBH, your thinking that someone needs perspective on a non-SN issue is offensive to this SN parent. Here is why.  ALL parents have challenges with all children.  And I would NEVER imply to another parent that they have it easy because I have a SN child and they do not.  Whatever issues that family has may be big issues for that family.  As the parent of non-SN children, I do not belittle the challenges they endure because my other child is SN.  "Johnny, I know you were not accepted into Prestige U and that you are dissapointed and hurt - but buck up because at least you are not like your brother." That is an extreme example, but that is what you are doing here.  I do not agree with the OP's POV at all, but she has the right to vent about a parenting challenge and to seek input and feedback.  To tell her to suck it up because at least she does not have a SN child like me is dismissive and not helpfu at all.  And it leads people to believe that SN parents are nothing but pity partiers! [/quote]

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