Comments about Special Needs Kids--by OTHERS:
I know this will likely get me hated, but I have what I think is a valid question. A child like your Taylor is very obviously in need of specialized attention and help and care. But I wonder to what end? Will Taylor ever be at a level that will enable her to function on her own? Will she be able to hold a job? Will she be able to cook her own meals? Why spend tax dollars teaching her math and ... reading if it is never going to help in her life? Honestly. Maybe I'm just misinformed... I don't know anyone with autism, or anyone that has a child with autism. But I am under the impression that they don't "grow" out of it. It is an affliction that is forever, right? I think schooling of any academic sort would be a waste of time and money.
Please forgive what I write from here on, because this note just put me into uncontrollable tears. With that note, my child sounded like a tax burden that should have been aborted. After all, it is the hypocritical feeling about abortion that, it is perfectly acceptible if there is something 'wrong' with your child to do so. Many probably feel this way about Taylor when I take her out into public. This is what I have been trying to explain in my diary for so very long.
This is what I deal with every day. My children are not viewed as children, but as tax burdens. Many feel like this person--they do not belong in THEIR society of perfect children in a perfect world.
Let's fight against the poor children in Iraq being killed, but judge my children as having no purpose.
This is a damn shame that people are like this. I thank the lords, gods and goddesses that I was brought up to believe that NO ONE was perfect.
I give up.
Thank you, LOR for proving what I have been writing here for so long, and unable to display to anyone. I think your note explains it all.
I am going upstairs now to hug my little tax burdens and let them know that, they are perfect in MY EYES...
Oh, and by the way--Taylor's math skills were assessed at genius level when she was tested.