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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every kid is a FT job. If you don't do the work, you pay someone else to do it.[/quote]

Sure. That's true. So put it this way: if having any kid is a full time job, having a kid with special needs is like mandatory unpaid overtime.[/quote]

I have to agree.  I'll say up front that I don't had a kid with special needs.  One of my kids was seriously ill and required a ton of treatments and therapies for a few months.  Coordinating the appointments, the insurance, etc, was on a whole other level- it was not like researching camps and getting together normal kid stuff.  Vent away OP and others.[/quote]

It's researching camps and then deciding against them because you're worried your kid will not do well and the counselor won't know how to handle it. It's being risky and signing them up for a lesson or activity only to have them refuse to participate and you eventually do early withdrawal so they don't ruin it for the other kids. It's stressing like hell because your kid can't write and the schools say "they will be expected to write in kindergarten BUT it's not developmentally appropriate til then so we can't do anything for that" and you wonder just how your kid is supposed to magically be able to write the first day of kindergarten when the schools don't care UNTIL the first day of kindergarten. It's picking and choosing what therapies you can afford and will be most beneficial. It's watching stuff come so easily to other kids and seeing how it doesn't even occur to their parents how fortunate that is.  [/quote]

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