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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, 15:16, I really feel for your son. How shitty.[/quote]

Thanks.

It does suck, but the sting is a little less.

Like I said, my kid is a NT kid with lots of friends.  Sometimes these types of disappointments happen for reasons we do not understand. In my kid's case, maybe this will be a good lesson in empathy and kindness. Maybe he will remember how this feels when he is the one picking teams at recess, kwim?

That is why I said I really feel for the kid who gets left out or cut due to special needs. For my kid this is a bump in the road or a life lesson, but it really felt horrible for my kid, especially the first time he realized the whole gang was on the same team.  For a kid who this always happens to, it must be soul crushing. It is hard to deal with this kind of rejection (intentional or not) when you are a confident, popular kid. To be a kid with more social challenges it must be so hard to pick up and keep going forward.

Coaches who are reading this, try to think about how this kind of rejection feels to an 8-12 year old kid. Rec leagues need to be inclusive, and if they are allowing neighborhood teams please try to avoid having 10-12 neighborhood kids on one team with 2-3 kid left out or scattered around by themselves on other teams.[/quote]

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