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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EXCELLENTLY.

Our first has special needs. We decided to have a second to give him a chance to work on socialization skills within his own home; and to experience the joy of parenting a "normal" child. We could have had another child with special needs, and it took us some years to decide because of that. But DC2 is highly functional, quick-witted, musical and altogether a delight. I believe our firstborn would not have developed as well as he has were it not for his sibling constantly engaging him and interacting with him.  They have a close bond.

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That's not fair to your second child at all.[/quote]

Depends. If the parents don’t let it impact the second child too much emotionally and financially, it can be okay.

My cousin is a first child who was impacted a lot by his severely autistic younger brother. In that case, they didn’t know beforehand of course.[/quote]

NP here. My older brother has autism as well, having younger sisters has been a help for socliazation.  The thing is  our parents did have me and my sisters specifically to be our brother's in house OTs, that's a lot of pressure to put on a child.[/quote]

All of this reminds of the book Ny Sister’s Keeper. It seems likens bad reason to bring a child into the world.

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