SN child on Desperate Housewives

[cktwo]

I watched Desperate Housewives last night on E4 (its the new one, repeated on C4 on Wed). I was so appalled by the offensive and dispicable way having a disabled child was portrayed, I turn the TV off. It has a flash-forward scene of Lynette's unborn child being born with SN and how she resents this boy and basically hates him as he grows up. Both DH and I were really upset . So a warning really, not to watch it.

I watched it when it originally aired in the States, and do not remember being outraged.

Personally, when the couples struggles to do the streching exercises on the ds, and they are finding it hard beacuse the baby cries, and the couple are finding it hard because they have not reached acceptance yet, it really resonated with me.

The way I see it, they were trying to depict the harsh reality on dealing with sn. And I could only applaud the fact that they did not show a world where everything is pink.

cktwo, If you watch it until the end, you might be surprised to see that there is a happy end.

Have tissues handy, I needed them

I had read somewhere else that it was quite a sensitive portrayal of how hard it is having SN DC, although can't be easy to watch and I haven't seen it so no disrespect to OP. But I might watch it (on my own, with lots of tissues) as the stuff about doing stretching and physio on a crying baby - well it seems a pretty realistic depiction of my life at the moment.

I thought the bit at the beginning was ok, with the baby and the stretching. It was the bit afterwards when the boy was portrayed as a sinister figure. Maybe I turned it off too soon, and maybe my own emotions are still raw but I found it upsetting.

yes you really should have watched till the end, the bit in the middle was about the anger he felt about not being able to do things and about her trying to do as much as possible knowing she wouldnt always be there. I did sob though that one though

I saw it, and I think she was trying to help her son become as independent as he can, and to grow up to believe that he is capable of doing things himself. It is certainly a tearjerker. I worry about my 5 year old autistic son, and even though it sounds so small, he can now peel a banana for himself after fetching it from the fruit bowl, I cried with joy when he first did it by himself, there was a time he couldn't bite food himself....
I agree, get your tissues ready....