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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a mom of older kids, I'm confused why everyone things the pandemic told them something new. Yes the pandemic sucked but we weren't supported before the pandemic either. [/quote]

Yes, thank you, I was coming to post this. All of these things were issues before the pandemic and they are issues after.

I'm not sure why everyone blames the pandemic for everything that's wrong with life. [/quote]

Is "everyone" blaming the pandemic for "everything" that is wrong with life? Is that something people are doing in this thread? Examples please.[/quote]

I'm not discounting that Covid was hard. It was, and it was harder for some than others. But raising kids and balancing family needs vs work etc was always hard pre Covid and continued to be hard today. So it's hard to tease out what was caused by Covid and what is just caused by life. And now Covid shutdown was a few years in the past, I think it's time to really start examining factors other than Covid if people are currently suffering. [/quote]

Covid pushed back my special needs child’s diagnosis for several years. He struggled during the pandemic, so everyone told me it was the pandemic. We had to do YEARS of therapy to prove to people that he had autism. Meanwhile, everyone else was trying to get therapy, making wait lists ridiculous. We had to pay for all that therapy ourselves. If he’d been diagnosed earlier, it would have been free. That’s thousands of dollars down the drain. Stress. Advocating for him. Research.

Again, just because your life is back to normal, but everybody else is.

And whoever is gaslighting that lady who had to wait six months to take out her IUD can go straight to hell. That’s the most infuriating post I’ve had the displeasure I’d reading in this site. [/quote]

I don’t know if this makes you feel better or not but I have a good friend whose son is autistic. They have paid thousands of dollars for therapy. He was diagnosed early and receives support but the child hasn’t improved much. My friend has admitted to me that when the therapists come, it just gives them a break. The kid is in so much therapy. It is very expensive. I know they have a mix of “free” services and services they pay for. My friend is very obviously autistic. If your child didn’t get diagnosed until later, he is likely high functioning.[/quote]

Yes, he’s level 1.

More to my point, the changed during COVID wreaked havoc with his schedule. He was even more defiant than usual. He got used to staying in the house when the playgrounds closed down. My formerly outdoorsy child started refusing to leave the house. He’s in physical therapy for a weak core which I guarantee you stems from the pattern that started during that time. He was sturdy before then, as I got him outside as much as possible. [/quote]

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