Posting on this Board

[hels9]

I'd be interested to know what anyone else thinks, but I do find it frustrating and a real shame when people whose children blatantly do have special needs in the literal interpretation of the phrase feel that posting on this board might be inappropriate. Special needs are, so far as I'm concerned, special needs of any kind - whether related to health, physical needs, behavioural or general-developmental. And that is why I look to this board for advice and support from understanding parents. Plenty of parents have children with special needs in several or all of those categories in any event, and it really would be tiresome to have to post the same message on several different boards to get to speak to everyone you want to.

I will rue the day we ever get separate boards for different categories of special need. (Anyway, the whole argument about dividing special needs up into more specific sub-categories reminds me a bit of the witterings on the Gifted and Talented board by disgruntled mothers who feel that there are too many merely clever children's parents posting on there, so the board really ought to be renamed, or the offending parents chased off with their tails between their legs - albeit that the reasons behind fearing this is the wrong board to post on are far more noble and sensitive to others' feelings than those behind the G&T comments).

agree pagwatch et al.

I don't think Janni said anything out of order at all. Made perfect sense to me (just in case it sounds as if I did!).

I have found this to be the most helpful and un-cliquey board of them all. It has certainly helped me steer my way through the possibility that my DS has ASD/Aspergers and given me loads of valuable information I have needed to get a diagnosis process started. At the beginning I did wonder if my concerns were trivial compared to others on the boards but I was never once made to feel like that by anyone on here. I always read the ASD or Aspergers threads because they are relevant to me and never seen anything but helpful and supportive responses.

OH I am sorry - I just felt that somepeople where using the chronic illness thread to add fuel to the fire about the SN posting.

I did not have SNs ticked, as I didnt realise you had too. I am sure a lot of other people didnt realise either.

I am quite happy to post whereever.

PS I wasnt attacking Janni

I dont think there is any fire to be fuelled

i had a look on the other thread(nosey cow that I am) and have to say the op seemed very sensible.
fio why are you back to front?

No fuel to be fired but perhaps some stirring to be stopped (I'm going to get it in the neck for that aren't I?)

PMSL

Wooden spoons are definitely flammable, you know .

i never noticed the wink is lowere than the smile.

FIO WHY ARE YOU BACK TO FRONT..ANSWER THE QUESTION

GUYS, I AM REALLY SORRY I EVER POSTED MY SILLY MESSAGE. I DIDN'T REALISE IT WOULD CREATE SO MUCH UNPLEASANT DISCORD.

I NEVER intended to suggest this board was a clique, nor to encourage others to think so - I've only ever posted on this board because I found it so much more welcoming than the others I looked at. By mentioning a small period of time in which I felt less comfortable (but nevertheless more at home here than elsewhere), I did NOT intend to imply that I had a general problem with peoples' attitudes on here. Just a problem with the way some feelings were phrased at the time. I don't see why anyone should feel so threatened or criticized by that or want to analyse it quite so much.

The reaction to my message just shows how easy it is to misinterpret others' intentions and feelings when written down rather than spoken. If some of you feel I (and clearly a few others) misinterpreted the true spirit of earlier messages on this board, that is fine, but given the reactions to my original post, I'm not the only one guilty of accidental misinterpretation. We're only human. We phrase things unfortunately sometimes and upset people or even scare them off, even on the SN board. Some of us are more thin skinned and therefore notice this more often than others. A few months ago, some posters hit a raw nerve for me. In the last couple of days, I've managed to hit a raw nerve for others.

Can we all go back to being nice to each other again, now?

Thank you, oiFoiF. Purrrrr. I feel a bit better already.

good I am very very glad

Hels.

If it hadn't been for your thread we might never have discovered poater quiche.

I'm now wondering if poater quiche will come up as a googlewhack for the other thread....

Nope. 360,000+ and a patronising "Did you mean poster quiche?

Harrumph!

what's this about velcrow cows and quiche's here? hope that Riven's vegan tendency's aren't offended by these

I wanna be a poater!!! I also wanna know what the hell a velcro cow is

I did know who 2shoes was though

fwiw - I told Psychomum to come on here for support/advice. Her DS2 has bowel issues, ?dyslexia and ?add. Told her you were all fab for support of ALL needs.

I still love this link from the original velcro cow thread.

Moooo!

hels
as DS2 would say "don woweey"

I certainly wasn't miffed or quiched. just puzzled.
all back to generally pertaining lovliness.

Proud to have been at least some of the inspiration behind the poater quiche. My first ever culinary success.