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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you all do [b]any of the therapies yourself since you have extra hands and time now[/b]?

Have your [b]parents helped[/b]? I feel like the man’s parents just don’t help as much and will not step in the way the wife’s parents do. [/quote]

It's only my Mom and my younger siblings who are working and going to school. They can babysit once in a while or listen but that's about it.

We've already cancelled OT and are doing it at home but DC needs speech, PT. We've cancelled our other DC's Cub Scouts and soccer because we are that stretched thin. He was so upset, it broke our hearts, he loves soccer. We have enough money for mortgage. gas, therapies. Most of our food comes from food banks. I also have a small vegetable garden.

I am crying. His parents can afford vacations, Broadway shows, regular friends outings at expensive restaurants, but it doesn't occur to them that maybe their children, let alone grandchildren, are struggling. That maybe more than a superficial text message would help. [b]Maybe offer to pay for their grandchild's therapy, because yes, they can afford it. [/b]He is their blood.

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Not everyone believes that therapy is worth it. Frankly as a parent of a SN child, I think I paid for a ton of useless stuff.  There is this belief out there that you have to intervene early and massively but many don’t buy into that and so they aren’t going to support it financially. Maybe that is where your in laws fall.

Another thing. My family is well off but we weren’t always. And we struggled to pay for things like therapy for our son. But now that we’re doing well, my family has their hands out and treats us like a piggy bank and we resent that. It changes the relationship both ways. [/quote]

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