thank you sn board but

[2shoes]

I won't be posting about dd on here or the teen board(will still keep an eye out for any where I can advise though) this whole Daily Mail thing has made me feel very unsafe. some of the issues I would be talking about soon will make me very Identifiable, so I will stick to TTR and SKINUK where it is safer.

I know you have a child with sn Greensleeves, and that he is 6 and that your dx is very recent, but I don't know how many years you've been fighting the system for your son's rights and relying on the support and knowledge of othewrs to guide you and inform you of what your options are.
Later down the road, when you're deep in the shit and your child is facing possible exclusion or not having his needs recognised or met, you will hope to God that you can find WetAugust because she has and is one of the best-informed people you will ever find.
And she shares the things she has learned over the decades, to a lot of people's benefit.
And yes, we have teeth. We've needed them.

'Very true Yurt, there can't be that many ginger haired autistic boys who run around shouting "boobies" continuously'

I met one October last year, 7 years old and fond of water. We were in Greenwich park, Was That You?

GS (you know me- we're planning to meet for coffee in Taunton LOL)-MN made a comment about how basically if we were concerned then yes it was best to consider whether we should post; all said in the nicest way certainly and no doubt through concern but it didn't seem they were that bothered by one or two tbh

I am another limiting my posting to 3-4 threads only, sopme of the stuff I have posted in the past about ds1 has a bit too much DM potential for my liking

Oh fuck it

will say once and once only

Goblinchild - you're right, you know very little about me and my children. Neither should you need to to afford me the right to post my views, as long as I don't abuse anybody, which I haven't.

Great that you have teeth. So do I. Big sharp pointy ones. (SN children not being the only life situation which requires the use of teeth)

Now you need to learn when to use them and when to put them away

Lily
I am feeling the need for a temporary name change too!

greensleeves good to see you posting on here, haven't seen you arround much lately.
I don't think having a pop at mn hq helps tbh, Justine seems very much on her own and I hate to see anyone up against it.
I am sure we will all survive on the sn board, we have all survived through much worst. I long ago realised though that we can't rely on mn hq to support us as if we do it won't happen.
I have not felt good about posting about dd on here for a while(I don't mind the less personal stuff like what drug to use to make her sleep) but talking about stuff that makes her identifiable or that people like DP can use to bolster their sn aversion I don't like.

at the end of the day all we can do is stick together and watch each others back(how ever long we have been on this path, it is still the same path)

thanks 2shoes, but I don't think I'll be getting comfy here somehow - my ds isn't disabled enough and I'm altogether the wrong sort

I hope something satisfactory comes of all this 2shoes/Riven et al - I've followed various threads (especially Riven's lately) and I'm sure NOBODY wants to take the support (and hilarity) of MN away from you.

Yurt, I was agreeing with you. The was about my ds2 shouting "boobies".

Hey what have I missed? What's the DM debacle about this week?

Sorry 5 Im feeling a bit sensitive
I just typed out an explanatory paragraph about why - and then thanks to the Daily Mail I deleted it

Greensleeves don't be silly, you should stay, the sn topic is for everyone who needs it.

Waitingforgodot - Part 2 of the Daily Mail saga ishere

No need to apologise

Tis all rather cack innit?

I've been trying loads to not post such personal stuff and name change quite a bit.

But I'm a spill my guts sort of person. And whilst I don't set out to give out loads of my dd's info, (cos that's the thing really - its her privacy not mine) I end up doing so mostly in response to other posts. I'd be loathed for any of this to be published. Particularly in such an out of context, lame arsed, trite and lazy fashion

At least I'm a pottymouth so not very likely, hey

I haven't read all the daily mail threads because tbh I really can't be arsed. but...

While on the one hand I think it's a bit crap that mn have sold out (and I blame mn for this tbh rather than the journalist writing the article, as even journalists have to eat), I do think this is perhaps a bit of a wake up call to people not to post such personal information on the internet.

Reality is that no-one on here is going to become any more identifyable just because their posts have appeared in the daily mail (or whichever newspaper mn sells out to next), if one posts on a public website, then those posts are searchable by anyone with the inclination to do so, and if one makes oneself identifyable, then anyone wanting to do so can identify you.

I would agree if the person concened had not been a member herself at one time.

yeah - I'd kind of been coasting on the assumption that why would anyone want to find our sort of chatter - unless it concerned them. However, more recent stuff about opt in of sn board / safe haven got me thinking more about it

Whilst I couldn't give a hoot about whoever reading my opinions / emotional outbursts / rants. Even someone from rl being able to identify me (really not very hard), I care about disclosing my dd's info. And there is stuff I've spilt here that I wouldn't really want people I know to know - if that makes any sense

But is hard to be 'discreet' when very premise / sheer rarity of what yr discussing makes it obvious who you really are

tbh I'm not sure the fact she was a member here is relevant. Perhaps if she had joined with the express purpose of finding information for her articles, if she'd been encouraging people to take her into their confidence and then been posting it in the daily mail then yes. But she was a member here a long time ago, she didn't make much attempt to hide her identity then which is why it's been so easy to establish who she is.

If anything I think that her having been a member here puts her at a disadvantage, because people seem to feel an entitlement to be more outraged.

But ultimately this is an open forum. And extracts from mumsnet do appear in the press on a fairly regular basis, so how can we be sure that anyone we're talking to isn't a journalist? At least this particular one was always up front about what she does.

of course it is relevant, her name if not her is known to a lot of people. it is like stabbing a friend in the back imo.

maybe people just feel a bit betrayed - almost like someone in her position may have a little more empathy and respect - knowing that this is an outlet folk may not have in rl etc

Her name is relavant

She was a much loved poster on mn
Many still miss her
That she used to post here and that she is now doing this is a stab in the back

I for one hope she has been shocked by how upset many of us are and will feel suitably ashamed of herself tbh

Surely their are important news stories the DM could be reporting on...........

hmm notice DM not posting about the lack of s7upport/respite/waitingtimes for salt,physio ot ,orthotics or the worry we all have over the possiablity of DLA being taken away .