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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you perhaps misunderstand her concern years ago, OP? As you describe it here, I feel it was genuine. Also, in the light of her own child dropping out, I think years ago she may have been connecting because she secretly knew her child had a vulnerability.

There are many reasons why a parent wouldn't share that their own child also has issues, and sometimes it's because their spouse is in denial and is forcing a blanket moratorium on the topic. My oldest child has a combination of diagnoses, and I have recognized the same issues in some of his peers, yet their parents are often in denial. Usually the father truly is, and the mother is hesitant about forcing an evaluation and treatment, and therefore does not feel comfortable sharing any of her concerns with outsiders. These are the sort of children who tend to struggle as adults, because they've never received the treatments they needed.

So no, I certainly wouldn't gloat. I would feel sorry for her and her child.
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I did not misunderstand her "concerns". She thought students with learning disabilities should be kept separate from their neurotypical peers. She voiced it more than once. "Why are THEY even trying?" Her DS and mine were in the same Honors class, and she found it so strange. It was incomprehensible to her that all SN children are different, some have more stamina than others.

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Most parents with kids with disabilities experience this throughout their kid's academic careers. People are ignorant and  people are rude. Anyone who thinks this is an unusual or rare occurrence has his/her head in the sand. I ran into a vile parent my kid and I had to deal with in late es. Her kid was a bully and hurt my child fairly seriously. The parent treated my kid like trash and made insulting comments about kids with disabilities ruining schools every time she saw me. I ran into her in public when our kids were hs aged. Our kids were at different schools post es. She unloaded on me about the problems her kid was having. I'm very kind and everyone dumps their problems on me. We were at a store and I stared at her like she had 3 heads, smirked and walked away. No one will make me feel bad about this. [/quote]

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