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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been reading this thread for days, in addition to the other thread started by the OP.

I have rarely read more resistant and combative responses to what’s amounted to detailed help and support.

[b]OP, why are you so angry?[/b][/quote]

The only thing I am "angry" about is the posters who say over and over that I need to get her therapy and make accusations that I have been a helicopter mom who has created this situation from interfering with her social life.  I have said repeatedly that I intend to get her therapy (although she doesn't want it, which is another issue), and I have also said that I haven't been interfering with her social life previously, but there seems to be a chunk of posters that just don't want to believe it.  They have made up their minds about me, and that's that.  They are now on the attack and regardless of what I say, it's "you're a shitty parent, for not haven gotten her therapy up till now." [/quote]

[b]I have no idea if you've been a helicopter parent in the past.  But, you're unquestionably being one now.  And it's unlikely these tendencies just manifested in you when your kid gets to high school. [/b] [/quote]

Exhibit A.  You are exactly the type of  poster I just described.  You have made up your mind about me and that's that.  Everything you post now will be some sort of attack.  And yes, it has caused me to become defensive. [/quote]

Did you even read the first sentence I wrote?

[b]Also, do you deny your are being a helicopter parent right now? [/b] [/quote]

Um, no.  Did you not read what I just wrote or did you just ignore it in your hatred of me?

Because people have made all sorts of accusations that I never said, I've gotten responses along the lines of I've kept her sheltered and she hasn't had the opportunity to develop social skills, when I've said that she's always been involved in many activities including theater. I've had posters claim that I have been a helicopter mom and interferred with her social life so that she's never had to develop social skills, and [b]while admittedly what I'm considering doing now is definitely very helicopterish,[/b] I've never done anything like this before, and never said anything in my postings to make people think that I have. People are just making assumptions about what they think the type of mom who would request something like this is like, and putting that bias out there in their postings, even ignoring many of the things that I have said to the contrary. Yes, I did say that I'm not hopeful that therapy would work for her, and yes I still have my reservations, but I would still would like for her try it. I mean it's not like there's anything to lose by it. And I actually HAVE encouraged her to try therapy a few times in the past, but she has always been adamant about not wanting it.[/quote]

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