to buy my disabled daughter branded clothes?

[PennieB]

My daughter is in a wheelchair, she is mentally disabled. She obviously has no idea about brands, so no peer pressure, etc.

However, I'm not being unreasonable to put her in them am I? MIL seems to think it's because I want to 'jazz her up a bit' would you think along those lines if you saw my DD in branded clothes?

YANBU op and cute little girl Aeroflot. Her hair is lovely and curly and I'm totally jealous.

My baby's are under 2 and don't have any reason to be in designer cloths. Except I like the colours, they fit well and wash well and it makes me happy. If somone told me not to dress my children how I wanted I would be annoyed. Assuming you can afford it-
Yanbu!

I work at a special needs school (no uniform) where lots of the children obviously don't have an understanding of what clothes they are wearing/branding, etc.

I think it's lovely to see the teenagers in clothes equivalent to what their peers in mainstream schools would wear, eg, fashionable styles, brands, etc.

Oh and we have Friday afternoon pampering time at school and the girls clearly love having their nails painted, makeup done, hair styled. They can't say so but they often put out their hands or smile into the mirror.

I worked with a few teenage girls with quite profound learning disabilities. The 2 most able girls would always compliment my patterned tights or my skirt etc yet often got dressed in their DM's old clothes, just hand me downs or ill fitting stained clothes sometimes several days running. It broke my heart that these girls clearly understood and appreciated enough about nice clothes yet never had it as an option themselves. And trust me, money was no object.

Thanks very much crash, it is very hard to comb, because of the SPD, she hates having her hair touched, so I have to totally wing it .

Excited that is awful, its a type of neglect. Ok the clothes don't have to be branded, but they can look nice and fashionable on a budget. It makes me happy to see dd looking nice when she goes out to places. At school, I make her wear a basic uniform, school trousers, white polo shirt, and a dark hoodie, but at weekends she wears nice things.

I worked with a few teenage girls with quite profound learning disabilities. The 2 most able girls would always compliment my patterned tights or my skirt etc yet often got dressed in their DM's old clothes, just hand me downs or ill fitting stained clothes sometimes several days running. It broke my heart that these girls clearly understood and appreciated enough about nice clothes yet never had it as an option themselves. And trust me, money was no object

At almost 60 I've seen and heard a lot over the years but your post has left me close to tears. I can't for the life of me understand why things like the above happen to our beautiful children.

Excited that is so sad

I went to visit a complex needs school with my son when I was thinking of applying for a place for him there and when we went into a class where the children were aged 12ish several of the girls ran over to me and held my hands gently looking at my nails to see if I had nail polish on so sweet. These things are very important to some children, disabilities or not.