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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, I cried at our last one too.  I honestly thought my DS would not be pushed into XXX many hours of special ed but the IEP team felt he still needed this much support (basically 10 hours a week in special ed).  Every year I have this crazy idea in my head "oh no, this year will be better, he will be fully mainstreamed) and then smack.  On the other hand, he made it to AAP this year, kudos to my geeky boy.[/quote]

This is me/us - except for AAP.  What's that?

Our 11 yr old DS has had an IEP since 1st grade. Now he's going into 6th and I had visions and fantasies of walking into our most recent IEP meeting with - "YOUR DS IS DOING SO GREAT, HE NO LONGER NEEDS AN IEP"....then I get smacked with reality of "...he's improved this year but nothing is changing in his IEP". 10 hours a week.

I cried when DS first got his ADHD/LD diagnoses. And it was 100% because of the piss-poor private psych and his lack of bedside manner.  He literally made us feel like our DS would not achieve a goddamned thing in his life. He would forever be on the short bus, never have friends, work as a grocery sacker, and live with us forever.  Mind you he didn't say these actual words but he might as well have.  I was so sick and depressed.    If these doctors only realized the sheer power of their words. how positive words can literally change the trajectory and direction of a person's life.  Or vice versa as in our case.

I had an algebra teacher in HS who once told me and my mom (private, high brow school FWIW) that I would amount to "less than a secretary" because of my lack of math skills. Her words literally changed how I saw myself and my goals for my future.  I pretty much said "fuck it, I'm going to MC and I hope THEY accept me...".  It wasn't till I hit my 30s that I realized how wrong that teacher was.  Funny though, 30 yrs later and she still haunts my memory. [/quote]

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