In some parts of suburbia, like my sister’s neighborhood, it is cool to have something wrong with your kid. Almost all the kids in that neighborhood have some kind of condition... homosexuality, aspergers, ADHD, alergies galore, gluten intolerance, depression, etc. When I go over there for parties, that is all they talk about is their kids and their conditions.
In some parts of suburbia, like my sister’s neighborhood, it is cool to have something wrong with your kid. Almost all the kids in that neighborhood have some kind of condition... homosexuality, aspergers, ADHD, alergies galore, gluten intolerance, depression, etc. When I go over there for parties, that is all they talk about is their kids and their conditions.
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As a mom to a 10 year old son with higher function autism, I can assure you it’s NOT “cool” to deal with what we deal with. Did you EVER consider that maybe something IS different about these kids, what they’re being exposed to that could result in these differences? I mean — I’d really like to know myself what it is, but our ESTABLISHMENT government/pharm/medical community seems to have no such desire.
Trying not getting any sleep for four years.
Try watching your kid be so constipated he can’t go for 2 weeks. Try putting him on a gluten free casein free diet and watching as his stools become normal for the first time in 4 years.
Try retrieving him from the middle of the road as he runs out the front door and into the street. Try apologizing to judgemental neighbors who are pissed because your kid crossed into their yard and is meandering around in their garage, their home.
Try surviving 45 minute meltdowns where you wonder if his head is going to explode.
Try managing schools, IEPs, your child’s educational progress which is PROFOUNDLY altered.
Try watching him as he doesn’t play normally or socialize normally with other children.
Trying watching as your child will NEVER participate in things as other kids do — baseball,soccer, any sort of team sport ...try watching as the kids socialize and hang out together, totally ignoring your child as he has very little social ability.
Trying watching a beautiful and otherwise normal child just decline before your eyes. You wake up one day and he’s flapping his hands in a corner, watching a little train set go round and around, over and over. And that’s all he wants to do.
I really hope that those who don’t deal with this and have the blessing of a normal child just sit back, keep it shut, and LISTEN to parents. God knows the pediatricians don’t. Researchers don’t.
There are 22+ vaccinations on the schedule now before aged 2. When my daughter, who is now 24, was growing up, there were only 11 before aged 2.
There IS something wrong with a lot of kids today. It’s terrible ....but if we were to admit that it was related to vaccines, the world would stop spinning on its axis.
Where is Sparta when you need it?