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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't understand her point.  OP doesn't seem to want to be seen in the same class of kids as SN kids so PP is pointing out that, in fact, her kid does have SN.  Because you know, medical SN are a better class of SN than developmental ones.  Gosh, you don't want to be mistaken for one of those kids.  [/quote]

You need to grow a thicker skin and not take offense when none are intended.  Nowhere does OP indicate that medical SNs are a "better class" than developmental ones just that her kid has medical SNs which is a fact.

- signed mom of kid with developmental delays.[/quote]

Different poster.  When a mom comes on this board and says:

[i]SWS is so rare and I get excited to know of a person with SWS who says something like "I never considered having SWS as having special needs at least for me." I hope my dd grows up with the same attitude![/i]

I think that by definition she is pretty much taking a dump on the entire notion of special needs.  So yes, offense taken here.[/quote]

So we should make certain that our children say things like "sorry, I have problem X, I can't do that"?  Or should we try to encourage them to say "even though I have X, there is nothing I can't do if I want to figure it out"?[/quote]

Apples and oranges. Encouraging your children to have a positive attitude is totally different from encouraging your children to believe that a syndrome isn't a special need.
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But the daughter has a syndrome.  SWS to be precise.  It can express itself in any number of ways, including physical and cognitive delays of various sorts.  The lawyer with SWS said that she has had it, and has led a happy and healthy life, the OP said "great!" - and somehow that's offensive?  We should avoid finding the positive elements in our lives?  We should not hold out people like Chris Burke, Stephen Hawking, or Hugo Weaving as exemplar for our children whatever their disabilities might be?[/quote]

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