to think SOMEONE must be able to help a desperate child?

[crispface]

am posting this on behalf of another mumsnetter whose son lost his favourite monkey over 2 years ago, and still cries for him.

The monkey has been discontinued by the white company, and no amount of desperate searches can help.

Now mumsnet is a big old world - can ANYONE help a poor little lad and make his christmas?

picture here

I agree Bejeezus- I find it odd a child would cry about it two years later and also the childs grandfather would be upset about it! Id just encourage my child to move on tbh

Desperate???? 2 years for a toy???
So dangerous to teach children to dwell on 'bad events'. Should be helping and empathising the child to get over it in a healthy way. Bad lessons being taught here.

Bejeezus you're just fucking rude and ignorant for the autistic comment

oh, old thread
care even less now

Zombie thread with a happy ending, and a happy second ending for Sulieman.
bejeezus, your comment contains ignorant twattery of the highest quality.
Autistic as a PA insult?
If you knew anything about the autistic spectrum, you would realise that more than most, many with HFA understand the importance of attachment to a significant object better than many NTs.

In the same way I didn't ressurect the thread, I am not the one who suggested people who don't make attachments to innanimate objects are autistic

apology accepted!

I totally agree. Autistic is not an insult.

It was meant as an insult, the way it was written in this thread IMO

Why bring autism in to the conversation at all? it is not non-NT to not form extreme attachments to soft toys

Thanks justgiven

I was being facetious in response to what other posters had said; there was a bit of a debate about whether you were autistic if you did get overly attached to teddy, or if you didnt get attached to your toys.....it seemed most popular that autistic children didn't love their teddies

My dd has ADHD, so maybe oversensitive to stupid talk about NT/NNT. As are a few others on here it seems

justabout not 'justgiven'