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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. I totally get it, OP. I may not be a super achieving type person, but all these feelings are still there. It's chronic grief; some days are better than others, but the grief is always there.
Yes, colleagues talk about their child writing names at 3.5 years, reading at 4, and on and on. Then there's constant feedback from therapists and teachers on what your child can't do. It wears me down a lot.
While I have become more empathetic to SN parents and children, at some level, in a weird way, my empathy for NT parents has gone down. So if a relative were to tell me that she is very stressed about which college her child would go to after HS, I find myself thinking "at least your child will go to a college. Mine may not." And then, I dislike myself for thinking this way. After all, that is a very legitimate concern for any parent to have. And then, I kick myself for not having enough faith in my own child and questioning whether she will make it to college. After all, we're the ones who have to be our kids biggest champions. It's hard.[/quote]

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