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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a tasteless post. [/quote]

Yeah, I have to agree. Imagine being a parent who's kid is not healthy, or has passed. This subject line it a bit of a slap in the face, albeit unintentionally.[/quote]

+1.  I have a friend with a severely disabled toddler and I always flinch whenever someone says they are so grateful for their perfect healthy baby or something along those lines.  I know people saying stuff like that don't have parents of disabled kids in mind, but they are (inadvertently perhaps) using those parents' struggles to make themselves feel better.  "Could be worse, I could be you!"[/quote]

It’s exactly this. It’s a very strange kind of myopia, and it reflects very badly on any adult who says it. Posting it where parents can see this is not a kindness, at all.[/quote]

Agree. It's like when expectant parents say "we don't care if it's a boy or a girl, it being healthy is all we care about!"  Like, ok, what about the babies who are born unhealthy?  You're openly stating that you don't want one of those babies.  It's tactless. [/quote]

What parent doesn’t want a healthy baby?  [b]I’m sure even parents of unhealthy babies wish that they were healthy.[/b]  OP ignore these negative nellies!  I am also grateful every day that my child is alive and am grateful for her good health when she is healthy. I cry whenever I read a news story about a child dying or suffering.  Puts my small challenges in perspective . [/quote]

Uh, no.  No, we don't.  That's you looking at our lives from your perspective.  Which has nothing to do with reality.  Let me ask you, when your car breaks down, or your washing machine, do you sit around all day wishing it weren't broken down?  Or do you take action, form a plan, and follow through?  If you spend every day of your life wishing things weren't the way they were, you are highly dysfunctional.[/quote]

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