Re posting things about including all children on your FB wall

[drspouse]

Vague friend/mum at school has posted this on her wall.

There are boys and girls that nobody invites to birthdays for example. There are kids who want to belong to a team but don't get selected because it is more important to win than include these children. Children with special needs are not rare or strange, they only want what everyone else wants: to be accepted !! 😡

It's been going the rounds so not outing, and not annoyed at this mum in particular, but she knows my DS has difficulties (he clearly has SEN but we just aren't sure what yet), he and her DS play together at school, but just like all the other parents, there's no effort to try and include my DS.

Another friend whose DS has a diagnosis of ASD wrote something similar which I shared - again likes left right and centre but nobody putting their words into action.

So if you are thinking of sharing something like this - don't. Just please invite a child you think is "trouble" to a party or round to play.

It's virtue signalling. Oh look at me, I'm so inclusive and kind but I don't want to actually include these children, I only think other people should. My MIL has posted this meme several times alongside lots of other "inspirational" memes about SN and autism, in reality she is the woman who sniffly told me that DS doesn't get any of "that nonsense" from her side of the family and that in "most cases" all of these "modern day conditions" could be cured with a "short, sharp smack across the backside".

Does she go on about how lovely she is to your DS?
At least nobody says that to us, at least not yet.

She never bothers with him, I can't remember when she last saw him even. My favourite is when she posts stuff like "God only gives special children to special families because He knows they'll love them the most" and all her friends comment about how strong she is and what avoid grandma she is

*Avoid - good