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To: Ga Peach who wrote (4357)	11/2/2000 6:40:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

And I feel sorry for you. To be so judgmental and still have to function in society must be a terrible trial. A child is a product of sexual union between a man and a woman, which simply continues the human race. Nothing more than that to me. I see my son's burdens as terrible to him. I see society as grievously cruel to him. I see a world that is not fitted for him. I see pain, and trouble- no matter how I work to smooth his way. I see depression- which he has had since he began interacting with people outside his family. His mother, whom you dare to criticize in your obviously very limited wisdom, gave him unlimited and unconditional love. I have been his greatest advocate, and I've done everything I could do to make his way better. I even attend school with him every day, and am available as a substitute teacher for his class when his teacher is absent- so that he may always have continuity in his teachers. I wish that he had not been born, not for my sake but for his. When he was 6 and in first grade he used to say "I want to die"- because the people in school were so horrible to him. Because normal children- probably the sons and daughters of people who think like you- would torture him for being different. Parents of special needs children take a lot of crap from people. They often get pity or resentment, when anyone thinks of them at all. They feel guilt because their children are the way they are, and they feel guilt for wishing they had not had their children at all. It is NORMAL to feel unhappy that your child is in pain and to wish things had been different. In my opinion you are a cruel and terrible person not to allow people to FEEL that way. It doesn't bother ME if you want to feel a handicapped child is a gift (of course you don't have one- so it's very easy for you), but to not allow ME my own feelings seems very obnoxious. BTW- if you are going to pray for anything please pray that my son may get some vision in his blind left eye. At least THEN you might do some good. Even I and my husband- neither of us the least bit religious- pray over his eye nightly just in case. I am leaving no stone unturned for him.

To: Ga Peach who wrote (4357)	11/2/2000 6:43:49 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 10042

What a remarkable post- remarkable in its condescension and its smug arrogance. How dare you sit in judgment on someone you know nothing about, someone who wrote with honesty about her life and her feelings and her child. I assume you, too, have a special gift from your God? If not, your attitude becomes even more inexcusable. A special needs child IS a burden. The battles that need to be fought daily, not only at home, but against the world are overwhelming. X has been an exceptional mother to her child- and for many other special needs children. SHe uses her education, her advanced degrees, and her incredible energy and determination to educate and to advance the causes of these special children on a daily basis. She spends hours in classrooms, on field trips, serving on committees and boards. She loves her child a great deal or she wouldn't feel such pain for him. How terribly you misunderstand what she was saying. The agony a parent experiences for her child's hurts and defeats is multiplied and deepened a hundredfold with a handicapped child. What kind of Christian are you who would sit in judgment on someone like this. I am just- sickened by your cruelty.