AIBU to become irritated by...

[emkana]

... threads along the lines of

my 18 month old can only walk a few steps or while holding hands, I am very worried, will she ever walk?

WTF?

ah dogtired I find those threads even more awful POster says something about how their 2 year old isn't talking or pointing and can't play with toys at all. Send very carefully worded post about asking to a developmental paed, doing it quickly because of long queues, can always cancel the appointment etc. Then 20 people post about how all children deelop differently and that bloody Einstein (who was quite possibly autistic, although that never gets mentioned ) didn't talk until he was 5. Then get torn between going back and typing another another, erm really would get seen but without wanting to panic the mother, or sitting on hands. These days I mostly sit on hands.

oh yes 2shoes good example.....

staryeyed- that was an exaggeration but it wasn't far off. It might have been something like 'my 2 year old can only count to 10' or something.

Thinking about this again it is hard to draw a line. For instance there are huge differences between the children who are on the sn board. So maybe my worry is tiny compared to what others are going through? So even here the differences are huge iykwim
I just think that unless you have a child with sn then most don't think and I am not sure about anyone else but with both of my children I am a born worrier so can sympathise with others the same as me.
Yes I may feel that someone who is worrying just because "your child can't pronounce the letter t" that maybe you are worrying over nothing but then remember (well before we knew that dd had any difficulties) being so stressed because ds had a slight lisp and yes had I been on mn I would probably have posted about it. Seems trivial now but at the time I was honestly worried about it.

No, they don't bother me, because I first started rabbling on about ds1 not talking when he was about 21 months. And had I posted my concerns, I'd have been hooted off the board (not the sn one though, because you are all too sensitive for mob reactions)

Now, at 4.5, he hqas a roughly 1.5 year speech dealy (my guess, he sounds like a 3 year old)

And I know that even now I must be really irritating some of you, you have more real problems (honestly no sarcasm) to deal with every day with little or no support, but 2 years ago, I was very vewry worried that he would not ever talk at all. I am still worried that it will never be clear enough so that peole's eyes don't flick between him and me when he speaks. Ds2's dodgy toe pales in comparison

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