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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of these answers make me so sad. So many rude, entitled, self-absorbed people. OP, I hope you are realizing that you and your kid are so much better off not having these people attend.[/quote]

OP here. I don't even care if they don't come. I just want a headcount so I can plan accordingly! That's why I mentioned to one parent at school the other day. She said she may have missed it. Wouldn't you at least go look for it after a parent mentioned it to you???? And it isn't like our kids aren't friends. She always invites us to their parties. I promptly RSVP yes or no.[/quote]

OP, I do sympathize, and for a funny reason. I have ADHD. I KNOW I will forget if I don't do a thing right away or at least put it on my to-do list right then and there. So I can come across as super-organized and/or uptight, I think.

But the kicker is, I have spent so many years being relatively "irresponsible" and getting that under control that I find it kind of maddening when seemingly neurotypical people cannot get it together. "If *I* can remember this, with my squirrel brain, how can they not remember and take two seconds to do the thing?!"

It's illogical, of course-- one has nothing to do with the other, and in some cases they may have ADHD or something and I (or they) don't know it. But I think I spent a lot of my life imagining that if *I* stopped causing or contributing to all the problems in my life, they'd mostly disappear. Turns out that's not the case.  :lol:  [/quote]

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