I was given the opportunity to be a guest blogger on aquietsimplelife.com by a fellow suite101 writer. My post was on the challenges of taking Tanner in public. Here's a link to the post:
A Quiet Simple Life Blog Post
The post lead to a discussion at suite101 which included this comment:
"I'm probably going to be verbally smacked for this, but oh well. It irritates me that just because she has an autistic child that the rest of us are ignorant if her screaming child is irritating. IMHO, she is the one who is ignorant if she thinks we should be able to just know her child is autistic and not just spoiled! At least that's my 2 cents. :)"
Thank goodness for the smiley face at the end or I might have taken offense to being called ignorant! ha!
There were many much kinder comments, of course, but it was this comment - this attitude that so well defines the challenges we face as parents of children with special needs.
Well, I tried. Maybe somebody heard me and heeded the lesson. Certainly not everyone did. :)
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