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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP that mentioned self care and I am very much a special needs parent who has spent the last 4 years advocating, worrying, crying, celebrating victories, driving to interventions, blah blah blah. When I felt the equilibrium was off (or more off than usual) the one place where I started each time was self care. As trite as it is, put your O2 mask on before you put on DC's. The self care that comes to mind for me first is finding a therapist - for me![/quote] Literally when the hell would I have gone to therapy. God the blindness is unreal. There was no virtual therapy pre 2020. I'm gonna log off because I'm starting to get angry, and that won't help me respond to anyone in a calm and supportive way. But mother of god, literally how would some of us ever gone to therapy alone? [/quote] I’m sorry it’s been so difficult for you. Clearly your experience is even more difficult than most special needs parents. That does not mean that some of the suggestions won’t help someone else. I hesitate to even offer another suggestion for you, since your entire mindset is that it is impossible - and, indeed, perhaps in this time of your lives it is, and I empathize. Can you get a sitter for the NT kid and take turns getting an evening away while the other stays with the other child? Where are they during the day? It can’t be that both parents stay home 24-7?[/quote]
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