what are the most strange or funny things people have said to you or asked you about your child?

[anniebear]

I mentioned in another post that some one asked me when DD was 3 if we would put her in a home when she was older .....never forgotten it!

can't believe anyone would ask me that!!!

hi yea ive had this to,my son has got downsyndrome and people would stare and ask why he pokes his tongue out its mainly when hes concentrating, its part of his downs. even my own mother said he wasnt right in the head,but if people dont understand it they will just be ignorant to it and say nasty things.hes 5 now by the way,and his name is jack.

What an awful thing to say! You have my sympathies. Mymother is exactly the same with my ds2.

hereIdrawtheline ! infact at a lot of these! Not offensive but funny,my DD has worn a medic alert band since around 3 months old and started wearing it on her wrist from one year ish.The number of people who ask "is it a watch" is amazing. I quite often say yes it is she is very talented!

Springlamb - that's brilliant!

One of dh's "friends" was telling us that his nephew had special needs. When I asked what his difficulties were he said "oh you know like your dd not quite the full ticket" FFS

thats awful BH

Never fails to amaze me how people feel they have the 'right' to say such things if your child has Sn

WHY DONT THEY JUST SHUT UP

ay springlamb
and at not quite the full ticket Blossom

My DS2 will occasionally say 'go a long way' to people who get too close and get in his face. Someone once asked DS1 what that meant and DS1 helpfully replied 'I'm afraid that is fuck off in pagboys world'

somebody asked me "do you think your son would still have a speech disorder and be autistic if you hadn't left his dad?"

I counted to five in my head and said "yes.I do."

lol at springlamb's DS!
Nice to see you back 2shoes...

Well I try to be quite tolerant of my darling darling DS, as I truly understand he can find life quite frustrating. It's hard enough being a teenager without cp.
However, when I overheard him telling dd yesterday 'piss orf or I'll rip yer eyebrows off', I did intervene!
He's also been known, when one kid says to another 'look at that boy' to say 'I'm not a boy' and bark like a dog. Scares the wotsit out of them.

LOL Springlamb. He sounds lovely, with a good head on his shoulders.

Yes, it's funny he's got cp as he's such a good looking lad. [Well he had the cp before the looks]

I get "I wish I had your chair" to my dd in her power w/ch. She's can't reply so I have in the past replied that she'd prefer to have your legs that work!!! Now I just grimace and get on with it.