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Anyone else cry as easily as me?

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 21:14

I cannot remember if I have posted this before but....

Whenever I talk to anyone (teachers, doctors etc) about dd I cry.

Yesterday I spoke to her literacy teacher and she said it was an absolute pleasure having dd in her class and she loved her to bits. I burst into tears as it really got me. Am I normal?

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LadyFioOfTipton · 04/10/2005 21:15

no you are mental, have you been to your GP?

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 21:17

Nah. Only give me ad's and I don't need those. the wine keeps me sane (ish)

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anniebear · 04/10/2005 21:20

I was only just saying today that I can cry if somebody stubs their big toe!!

Since Ellie, now 4, was seriously ill at the age of 8 months, I have become a much more emotional person.

I have cried in front of Ellie's Head mistress!! and plenty of times I have been choked with the Physio, Paed, Portage etc etc I'm jut the type of person that keeps it in then cries when I get home!

So yes, of course you are normal, well...as normal as me anyway

Good job you don't know me, otherwise that wouldn't be much consolation!!!

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 21:23

Annie - I think because I really want to wave a magic wand and make everything alright and can't
So I grab onto all the positives with dear life!

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maddiemo · 04/10/2005 21:25

No, I just tend to get frustrated and say all the wrong things. Can be very tactless, might be better if I did burst into tears.

Is that why you are Blossomhowl?

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 21:26

LOL, no!

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anniebear · 04/10/2005 21:28

BH, I would so badly love one of those magic wands

Buddhamummy · 04/10/2005 22:07

oh i am a cryer! from old men packing their own shopping in tescos to limping pigeons, to sunsets, i almost always have an alice cooper mascara moment going on! but i like it i think being able to release like that means im really connected with life, but also have the opposite of being a real laughing policeman too.

paolosgirl · 04/10/2005 22:10

Oh, I do it all the time too. If I'm not actually crying, I'm doing that wobbly voice thing. It drives me mad. I wish I could be more of a hard-nosed cow sometimes.

Jimjams · 04/10/2005 22:11

blubbed on plenty of people (sometimes OK sometimes incredibly embarrassing). try to keep it together for those tough meetings. KNow that I would have blubbed in ds1's last ms meeting if his private SALT hadn't been there and saved me (said the stuff that needed saying but I wouldn't have been able to say).

Now - in special- that need to blub doesn't come at all really- the meetings are positive, but realistic.

random acts of kindness and kind words from strangers are much more likely tp get me crying that the witches who tut and stare.

wads · 04/10/2005 22:13

LOL Buddhamummy! I've cried in front of practically everyone concerned with DS and lots of others who've never even met him! Managed to get through Dr appointment without blubbing today - think Dr was as amazed as me!!

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 22:23

Does anyone else do the bit where you know you are going to cry and sort of tense up your eyes to stop yourself?

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wads · 04/10/2005 22:30

I do the throat constricting, deep breath, get a grip on yourself woman bit but it doesn't usually work (blush)

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Blossomhowl · 04/10/2005 22:42

I don't know about you Wads but I feel so vunerable when I do.

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eidsvold · 04/10/2005 22:53

I used to tear up at all sorts of things and when dd1 was in SCBU and about 3 days old - I got teary when visiting her and looking at this little mite in a humidicrib attached to all sorts of wires. It was the day we had the proper confirmation of her Down syndrome and day 3 or 4 when one's hormones crash anyway...... The next morning I noticed in her files that the nurse had written that I had visited and cried... with a question mark next to it.. I figured if crying at that point in time was soooo noteworthy and would result in a visit from the social worker to see me that I would no longer cry in front of professionals.... having said that I have not had to go through the whole school process yet.

SO yes - people's kindness, life's injustices, news items, my beautiful daughter's struggles - all make me cry.....I don't do the tense up thing I tend to try and open my eyes as wide as possible so as not to blink and cause the tears to fall... so I look like some wild woman.......usually with eyes wide open looking very scary!!

You are normal......

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Blossomhowl · 05/10/2005 20:23

Thanks Eidsvold. My eyes are too near my bladder and that's my excuse

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Chocol8 · 05/10/2005 20:51

Great name Bloss - I just thought you were getting ready for Halloween!

Bless you Eidsvold - to think a professional could put a question mark against the fact that you cried! WTF? I cried the entire time I was in hospital and my baby wasn't in SCBU!

I cry at Eastenders, Correy and Emmerdale - the other day I cried buckets at Holby (when Paris died, I couldn't stop!).

Bloss, you're very normal hun, don't worry. x

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Blossomhowl · 05/10/2005 20:57

Ah thanks Choc. You are very sweet.

Are u coming to the meet if we manage to sort something out ? xxx

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wads · 05/10/2005 21:02

Blossom in answer to do I feel vunerable, more like cross at myself for not holding it together & sometimes tears get in the way of what I'm trying to say. But I try not to dwell on it as I know the professionals are more than used to blubbing mothers (& fathers!)

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Blossomhowl · 05/10/2005 21:02

It means we are human doesn't it Wads

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MorticiaMerlot · 05/10/2005 21:53

I find the positive things more emotional than anything else. I blubbed my eyes out at the Team Around The Child Meeting when I was talking about ds2 pointing for the first time

wads · 06/10/2005 20:13

Blossom! Had a hellish drop off at school today & ended up crying in front of support teacher & DS! I totally hold your thread responsible!!!

Chocol8 · 06/10/2005 20:40

Hi Bloss - sorry went to bed early last night. I will try and make it, will keep my eyes open for the date. Could really do with talking to someone who understands right now.

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Blossomhowl · 07/10/2005 13:57

merlot - yeah i am like that. I think it's bacuase I am so proud of anything that dd achieves.

Wads - sorry

Choc - Well I will make sure it is a time you can do

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hellsbellsdownunder · 07/10/2005 14:21

I still cry whenever anyone talks about ds. silly thing is he's now 18 and outgrown his earlier difficulties!! there's no hope for me!!

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