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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Everyone can vent, but hopefully you understand why you shouldn’t cry loudly about your 6 week miscarriage to you friend who just had a 40-week stillbirth. Right? PP wasn’t saying you have no right to be sad or vent. She was explaining how she feels to be grouped with parents who have kids who are virtually NT.[/quote]

Misery is not a contest to be won.[/quote]

again that’s not the freakin’ point. the point was to understand PP’s POV when faced with parents complaining about their extremely high functioning kid. [/quote]

O I'm the pp who is annoyed by parents with high functioning kids telling me their child is autistic.

I never said that they shouldn't say so, that was someone else. I personally find it annoying.

I liked the glasses to blind analogy. Imagine if in order to get any vision treatment, you had to qualify as blind.

Parents of children who really can't see would probably be really annoyed by people whose children have vision which is correctable by glasses complaining about being blind, and insisting there is no difference between a child who needs glasses and a child who will not be able to see no matter what.[/quote]

I’d be really annoyed about that too. Like somebody whose mom is being irritating should be very cautious about complaining about their mom to somebody whose mom has just passed away. Or somebody raising a child with easily managed depression should not complain about it to somebody raising a child who has had to be hospitalized several times for depression. You’re 100% justified in being annoyed.

I just don’t see what that has to do with the DSM. [/quote]

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