Doom gloom and despondency
When I received the first evaluation of my son, I was a little gloomy. I remember three things distinctly. Firstly, it started off well enough with something like ‘he is a good looking happy faced child……’ ahhh……but then went downhill at a rapid pace. What followed was a laundry list of deficits. Truth be told, it doesn’t matter what euphemisms they use, deficits equates to ‘bits to fix.’ That was the second bit. The third bit was the value laden phrase ‘window of opportunity.’ I was left with the distinct impression that in our case, the boat had left the harbour, sunk and was now moldering away as an old abandoned shipwreck, but then some of us are terminal pessimists. To read more click “here.”
Stumble it!
May 18th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Your “more” link is incomplete.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Very well written, Maddy. I’ve sent my parents over to read this post, as my son has to do things “on his own terms” as well- and they often don’t get the idea that sometines ignoring the child is just what they need. You certainly have a way of explaining things that I so often cannot.
Thank you for this post!
May 18th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Until Maddy fixes the link, the rest of her great post can be found here.
Joe
May 18th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Thank you, Joe. This was advice I could have used early on. I did finally figure it out, but oh, my!
May 18th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Thanks Joe - I’ve fixed the link now I hope.
Cheers dears
May 20th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Perfect.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I really hope at least one parent with a newly diagnosed child reads this post.