Am a regular on SN but have namechanged due to spectacularly low mood today, not my usual chirpy self.
Have an SN DS aged 9 plus a "typical" younger DC.
Just had niggling and increasing feelings of existing only on the edge of society. Don't worry, really not depressed just feeling very sad. We are happy as our own little family but I just feel quite isolated from the rest of the population.
We're halfway through the school hols and I realised that nobody from DS's mainstream school has bothered to even phone and arrange to play.
Most times, though not all, that we have been out have been to activities involving a therapy of some sort. All with poor younger sib in tow. We did try looking into activities that both dc's could do but they don't seem to exist.
When we do see other mums, of mainstream kids, they clearly react as though they have nothing in common at all and soon move on.
Worse has been the reaction from family since the dx. Initially it was the very unhelpful and sometimes abusive comments now followed by just keeping a clear distance. I know that they meet and their dc's play together, even bringing along their own school friends but just don't bother to even call and chat. Then DS asked if one of them had died! Because he doesn't see a certain relative anymore because they died before and now he doesn't see another one anymore, he figures that they must have died too and that I just hadn't told him.
Younger dc needs to be included in mainstream society but how can we do this?
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ThingyMajig · 13/08/2009 12:05
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