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Bit rude response re child with SEN

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yearnewwhatever · 10/02/2021 17:35

On the phone to GP surgery ensuring that it's on the record that I'm a carer for my autistic son (he gets DLA and we get careers allowance) as we've been told to do to ensure group 6 vaccination.

Conversation goes....
Surgery 'so your child has problems?'
Excuse me?
Surgery 'your child isn't normal?'
Um, he is normal actually.....
Surgery 'I'm just trying to find out what's wrong with him'
Nothing is wrong with him and you're being quite offensive?
Surgery 'I'll put you on hold'

🤷‍♀️

AIBU to suggest some disability awareness training is in order?

My poor boy heard it all on speaker phone (my mistake)and is now asking why his autism makes him not normal....😡

HebeMumsnet · 10/02/2021 20:19

Evening, everyone.

We've deleted some posts on this thread as we felt they crossed the line into disablism. We know that most of our users would never say something deliberately that they knew would offend the parent of a child with SEN but we would ask people to think carefully before posting about what they're saying and whether they might actually be being disablist.

Our This Is My Child Campaign is quite old now but so much of it is still relevant today, particularly this part about the myth around language used to describe people with SEN not mattering. It's well worth a read if you have a moment.

We will continue to delete any posts that stray into disablism or are just not in the spirit of the site, so do hit the report button if you'd like us to take a look.

OP, we're so sorry you and your son had this experience this morning. We hope you get an apology at some point from the surgery, and that this incident is the catalyst for some training.

HebeMumsnet · 10/02/2021 20:57

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