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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of stumped... My daughter is young so I haven't dealt with this a lot yet

Maybe something like "Do you enjoy being mean? Did you come over here to make her cry?"

Kid answers no (or yes if they are a real little shit)

"Well, you're not the one in the wheelchair so what do you care? Why don't you just go enjoy your life? Get lost."

I am really nice to kids I think are just confused but if I think they are mean I won't play nice. [/quote]

I appreciate this but my kid in a wheelchair enjoys life too, a lot, all the time.  I would like to get away from this notion that life with a special needs child and for the SN child is constant doom and gloom and burden and despair and catastrophe.  There's an outpouring of discontent on this forum because [i]that's what it's for.[/i]  Just as there's an outpouring of sleep and behavior and food problems on General Parenting. But that doesn't mean that life with babies and toddlers is all problems and that doesn't mean life with my kid is all despair.[/quote]

Sorry, I didnt mean to imply a person in a wheelchair doesn't enjoy life. My kid has a different disability and it drives me nuts when people say those with her disability "suffer" from it.  I just meant pointing out to them that they don't have the disability so why worry about it and go on their merry way. I see now I phrased it clumsily. [/quote]

I hate the terms "suffering" and "affliction" applied to disabilities too.  No worries.[/quote]

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