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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this thread is unbelieveable. First the criticism of usage of terms that are constantly used right here on DCUM (albeit on the Special Needs board).  You would think parents would appreciate learning new terminology that might help them better understand children who are different than theirs.   [quote]

Now, look.

This isn't the Special Needs board, is it? If the posters to the Special Need board feel the need to wallow in clinical language to assuage their feelings, that's fine. But for the life of me I find the need to create a whole label to describe normal children and demand that everyone else accept and use that "terminology? to be just absurd.

I don't look at my child and think "I love my neuro-typical child", although I will look at yours and think, "that kid's behavior isn't normal, I wonder what's wrong with him."

Of course, you want to banish the thought process of "what's wrong with him" from my mind, but you can't. It's not intolerant, either. When you observe something that's out of the norm, you immediately ask yourself the question. Then you figure out the answer quickly: Oh, that child has aspergers's or has some other special need.

I realize that parents of SN kids live with it every day. They get very accustomed to their own language, etc. There's probably a herd mentality that goes along with it. But you also have to understand that most of us do not, in fact, live with it every day, and to expect or demand that we use your language is off-putting. I appreciate how hard you have to advocate for your child, but you don't get to tell me how or what to think, or what words to use.

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