Small vent

Florak8

I find it really annoying when people feel the need to brag about how smart their special needs child is, to a bunch of other special needs parents.

Pick up the clue phone, pal. You are making at least half of us feel like crap. Yeah, good for your kid, that is awesome. But seriously, shut up.

(This is not directed at anyone here.) 

Florak8

And while I am on a roll, I also find it annoying qwhen I am trapped in the dentist/salon chair and whooever is working on my head complains about how their NT toddler has X typical issue, but is SUPER-SMART.

Again, you know my kid has issues. Shut up. 

Florak8

And while I am on a roll, I also find it annoying when I am trapped in the dentist/salon chair and whooever is working on my head complains about how their NT toddler has X typical issue, but is SUPER-SMART.

Again, you know my kid has issues. Shut up. 

Assembly_Reqd

Maybe we need a Vent-Day?......Vensdays?

That would be annoying. Especially when you are all trapped there with your numb lips, bib and a mouth full of someone else's hands. I never understand why they want to have small talk. I don't talk with my mouth full.

They are not thinking about your child's issues. (obviously) You have to believe that story was told over and over and over again all week long. Maybe she/he was on "random chit-chat autoplay". It does not excuse it, but I can def see how this could happen.

Florak8

Vensdays! LOL I love it!

You are right, of course. It's not about us. I was thinking about that with the dental hygienist today, and how I could never be one. To just pretend to have a conversation when really it is a monologue and you don't know what the other person wants to talk about . . . not easy. I forgive her. My hair lady, well last time she lopped off way too much while yakking about her kid, so that, I am still not over. Auughh!

 

Assembly_Reqd

FloraK8:

My hair lady, well last time she lopped off way too much while yakking about her kid, so that, I am still not over. Auughh!

LOL. I seriously, seriously worry when I get a chatty hairdresser. Especially regarding their listening skills....

4Speedy

I don't mind so much when parents of kids with SN's brag about how smart their kids are, as long as it's within reason and done with sensitivity.  It kind of gives me hope.  I get steamed when other parents brag about their NT kids in a way that compares them to my SN kids, though.

There is a parent of a child in my NT daughter's class that drives me nuts.  This kid is an absolute princess, she can do no wrong in her mother's eyes.  Another mom and I were having a talk about our apraxia kids.  The other mom was telling me about how delayed her son was but he was doing well in Kindergarten (in the same class as my older child).  I told her that made me feel better because I was hopeful that my younger apraxia child would be caught up by the time he is that age.  So clueless princess mom leans over and says, "yeah, princess is doing really well this year too.  but I knew she would because she's been talking since she was 10 months old."

I actually feel kind of sorry for the smug mom.  She must be pretty insecure if she feels the need to let me know her NT kid is "superior" to my SN kid. 

realisticdreams

=(

I'm sorry.

I feel bad whenever I say anything about Peyton being neuro-typical with her medical problems because I don't want to offend anyone.  And honestly the fact that she is NT with a stroke/mild cp is just so astonishing it's hard not to be excited about it.

I get what 4speedy said though, like how hearing 'good' stories can give you hope for the future, etc.  Because that's what I thrive off of is kids with similar bladder problems as P who got it sorted out one way or another as they got older.

HUGS. 

Florak8

You have never, ever offended me, RD.

There were just some moms being obnoxious on an FB page I follow. Several other moms asked that people not be so eager to differentiate themselves from the rest of us, to no avail. The whole "my child's IQ is X-high number and they are on an IEP" thing. 

I honestly am happy for people with typical kids and happy for people with SN kids who are doing well whether academically, medically and/or socially. It's just pretty crappy when you have to witness people saying the equivalent of "my kid is like yours, but better." 

4Speedy

FloraK8:

You have never, ever offended me, RD.

There were just some moms being obnoxious on an FB page I follow. Several other moms asked that people not be so eager to differentiate themselves from the rest of us, to no avail. The whole "my child's IQ is X-high number and they are on an IEP" thing. 

I honestly am happy for people with typical kids and happy for people with SN kids who are doing well whether academically, medically and/or socially. It's just pretty crappy when you have to witness people saying the equivalent of "my kid is like yours, but better." 

I know what you mean.  But I firmly believe having a high IQ doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things if it's not being used to its potential.  I kind of laugh to myself when parents brag about how smart their kids are, especially when IQ's are mentioned.  Big effing deal that their kid won the birth lottery.  I'll scream "wahoo!" through the roof top when a sn kid or an "average" nt kid struggles with something and finally gets it.  When a mom of a gifted IQ kid brags about how easily things come for their child, I always think, "eh, whatever." 

 

bumpuser511563

This could be therapuetic(sp?) for us to vent anything or on such jerks. They have open letter wednesday on working moms.