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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another SN mom with the same story....we invited the whole class to DD's birthday party...it's now June and not a single invite has come her way. It's just disgusting to me.  I can't stand seeing these kids anymore.  The old "we only invite 3-4 kids thing"...okay, fine.  But where does that leave MY kid?  Why is she always alone?  [/quote]

This is our experience as well. People don't feel the need to reciprocate invitations-- so when their children have parties or play dates, they just ask their children for a few choice friends and a SN kid is rarely at the top of the "desired" list. People usually aren't deliberately excluding--they just aren't actively including, and so a kid at the bottom of the pecking order is always left out.[/quote]

I do think many parents actively exclude. Several parents told me to keep it on the down low that my children started at special ed preschool because both had significant speech delays. At our first private preschool another mother heard me talking to a teacher about the previous preschool and told me later TO MY FACE that at first she didn't like that my kid was in the class but that she was over it. [/quote]

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