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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not offended in the least and I don't take it as anything other than a compliment.  Frankly, I am a great mom, much better than most moms I know.  I have to be because two of my kids have SNs.  My NT kid would have done well with pretty much any parent that was decent but my SN kids wouldn't have.  I've had to do so much more than other parents just to get my kids closer to 'normal'.  Yes, being a parent is hard but, for me, being the parent of an SN kids is even harder.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not some sort of martyr.  I do what I do for the same reasons any parent does what they do.  It's what I have to do.  But the drain on resources (personally and financially) is far higher.

Now that my kids are in school, I can see that I do so much more than the vast majority of parents.  How do I know this?  The teachers tell us.  We've been in public school now for 6 years and I've had enough interactions with the teachers to know I'm not the typical parent - SN or not.  So, I'm not offended when someone recognizes I'm going a great job at something - at least at that moment.  They don't have to know what I'm doing the rest of the time.  I look at their comments as a sort of positive reinforcement.  They're catching me doing something good and recognizing - just like I try to catch my kids doing something good and recognize it.[/quote]

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