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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but if your son is old enough to gawk at my daughter's naked body, then he should be old enough to pull up his own pants.[/quote]

It doesn't work that way.  He has fine motor skill delays.  But at least he has empathy for others. [/quote]

Your son's delays don't mean that my daugther has to give up her privacy.  She should be able to go into a locker room for her gender and not be gawked at.  Are you sure he has empathy - then why is he staring and making other people uncomfortable?[/quote]

New Poster.  Sigh.  This is how these threads always turn out.  What's the point?[/quote]

NP here.  First pp, OP did not indicate in her post that her child might gawk at others or cannot pull up his pants at 6 years old because he has a motor delay.  If that was OP even posting.  And yes, it does make a difference because maybe posters would have understood her predicament more.

Second, just because a child is special needs does not mean rules should be broken.  If a pool has an age limit in a locker room, it is there for a reason.  A naked 13 year-old girl chaning in the appropriate place should not be made to feel uncomfortable if a 10 year old SN boy needs to enter to use the bathroom.  Sorry it is what it is and if the pool does not have a handicapped restroom for multiples then maybe this is something that people should take up with management.

Signed someone who has a 50 year old uncle with special needs.[/quote]

He's five and he's not breaking any rules.  There was no need to point out he has fine motor skill issues because it's not a big deal.  It only became a big deal when another poster acted like he should be old enough to do it himself and wasn't particularly nice about it.

I'm trying to be sensitive to others in the changing room, even when I don't have to be.   That's it.  [/quote]

I know you aren’t breaking rules OP.  I was posting because some people seem to think that until they are comfortable with their DC being alone they can bring them into a changing room for the opposite sex.  It does not work that way.  I have nothing against what you are doing FWIW.[/quote]

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