Including SN threads in active convos

And that thread was not belittling someone else's worries- it was someone having a shit time wishing she didn';t have to. And to be honest having some back from that coffee morning, havfing spent 2 hours staring at the awfulness of the future probably 90% of threads on musnet would make me feel like that today. Of course I'd never post that now (I've learned) but if you want SN open then you have to understand that when you're child has a serious disabilty that you sometimes feel ugly and you sometimes hate everyone in the world and everyone who has it easy. And people should be able to say that and be told it's entirely normal (whilst being given tips perhaps on how NOT to let the bitterness eat you up from the inside). And not have to apologise to someone who has no idea at all what it is like to live with a child who requires 24 hour care and attention and will do for the rest of their lives.

yur1 omg the future(scared emotion)
I agree I hate having to explain all about dd everytime I post.

Oh please do make it opt out, there's already been a fight over there - faster even than I predicted (I gave it 2 weeks).

I've just come back from a school coffee morning where there were people with kids now in adult services (provison costed at 300 quid a DAY for someone who sounds very like ds1- that was great provision but a fight to get obviously). It was a rather depressing in some ways glimpse into the future. I really don't want to have to spend my time on here explaining to all and sundry how bloody different my life is to theirs and having to be all fluffy bunny school or shouted at if I'm remotely realistic.

But no doubt this will kick off again. (Yawn)

wow Feel like I have been her e before.........

if people want to ignore it they can

there was some talk the other day on the feeling depressed board, someone saying it was good that people could opt out of it so they wouldn't come on to the board and start saying 'pull yourself together' etc

I honestly, honestly, honestly don't see why SN is any different to that

as a woman with depression and mother of an SN child

Fio - I used active convo's when I first joined - was the first thing I clicked on

oh this is just getting silly

I'm not here at the moment but I drifted past and saw this and it got my goat

if we can choose our own topics then why can't SN be any different to any other? Is SN going to be hidden away so that any new mners never see it? What if their kids were diagnosed as SN and they didn't know the board was there?

if people can opt in and out of topics then I thought that would have meant SN became like any other topic and you could opt in or out when you customised your talkboard

and that thread that 'kicked off' was people on SN belittling other people's worries

I don't see how this is something that we have a right to demand to do

Just to throw a spanner in the works...

The whole reason for making SN "opt in" was long and drawn out, but was eventually decided as being a Good Idea.

Now it is just there unless you exclude it again, and already the first thread has kicked off like it used to

Please can it be opt in again rather than opt out?

actually, i have not got anything from sn either