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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well personally I had this great house in the city that I could walk to work from, and a smart and incredibly sweet and kind kid who I love beyond reason, and one day I woke up and thought, you know what our family needs?  An autism diagnosis!  So that it could become clear that the wonderful DCPS professionals who were doing their very best for him (and asking us to stay) couldn't give him what he really needed, and we could move to the suburbs and a $30k private school and an hour plus commute.  I thought about spending that money instead on a lawyer (although I have that particular degree myself) so that I could force DCPS to create a first-class HFA program (which BTW they could have done for 5-7 kids entirely with the income tax I used to pay), but then I thought--hey, that would make too much sense.  Maybe if I do the crazy thing instead then someday Ed Norton will play me in the movie. [/quote]

LOL. Yeah, one day I turned to my husband and said, "We have waaaaay too much money. You know what would be fun? Let's spend over 20,000 a year on speech therapy, occupational therapy, tutors and a special camp! Heck, why don't I go part time so we can have less money coming in and I can pretend I'm a taxi driver an chauffer and work on my tutoring skills too! It would be really fun to try to get some reimbursement form our insurance company. I crave talking to useless people on the phone and filing appeals because it makes me feel alive! Oh and I have always wanted to be known as a pain in the ass parent and now I have my chance! I can fight for the most basic accommodations and I could kill off a forest of trees collecting reams of papers with the word IEP on them. Who needs to do home repairs and maintenance when I can spend all that money on having strangers put my child on strange swings?"[/quote]

Ha ha, funny, I don't remember typing this yet I must have. Don't forget feeling guilty from neglecting or not being able to do as much for other siblings.[/quote]

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