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<\/center><\/p>\nEvery parent of a special kiddo has had at least one person make a stupid remark to them. Some people have even let me do guest posts on this subject.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 Now that I’m kinda sorta done with hell week (at least until I start correcting the issue with one of the problems on my Accounting homework), I thought I’d post a few here.<\/p>\n “Daniel is autistic? Did you vaccinate him? Have you tried the GAPS diet<\/a>?”<\/strong><\/p>\n *utters a gutteral growl and points to the shirt that reads “Yes, my kid is autistic. Yes, we vaccinated him. No, we’re not doing the GAPS diet. Now go away, you weapons-grade plum!!”*<\/p>\n The word “retarded”.<\/strong><\/p>\n Apparently someone’s parents neglected to teach them manners! Good thing to know I’m raising Daniel not to be socially stunted enough to say something like that in public. \ud83d\ude42 *smiles sweetly*<\/p>\n “Need help?<\/strong> (Usually said as I was trying to enter or exit with the kid in his stroller.)<\/em><\/p>\n Nope! What makes you think that?<\/p>\n “You need to take care of yourself.<\/strong> (Usually said after criticizing Daniel’s behavior or my parenting.)<\/p>\n You’re right! Thanks for offering to pay for a qualified sitter while you drive me to the local nail place for a mani\/pedi and clean my house from top to bottom! Oh yeah… you can also pick me up an iced vanilla latt\u00e9 with whole milk from Whidbey Coffee Company<\/a> on the way. \ud83d\ude42 Don’t forget to scrub my toilets and fold my laundry before you pick me up! *smiles saccharinely*<\/p>\n It must have been so hard to leave your kid in the hospital and come home every night.<\/strong> (This was said to me at a church dinner after Daniel’s epic three-week hospital stay in March 2011.)<\/em><\/p>\n *glares* Who said I came home every night? Didn’t Jon tell you how much I *LOVE* hospital food, showering only once every 4 days, and sleeping in uncomfortable chairs while watching my kid hooked up to endless tubes and machines?<\/p>\n Someone calls Daniel the “Planned Parenthood poster child”<\/strong><\/p>\n *repetitively throat-punches the speaker because there are some things YOU JUST DON’T SAY TO A MOTHER!!!!!!!!* (Making this even worse, it was a close family member who said it. Needless to say, we have no relationship anymore and I’m not regretting it.)<\/em><\/p>\n Something about how having an autistic child is the worst thing they could imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, you know, having a child who makes comments like that to people must be pretty humiliating as well. I weep for your mom.<\/p>\n “I’m sorry your child is retarded.”<\/strong><\/p>\n *shrugs* Eh, at least he’s smarter than you are!<\/p>\n It must be hard knowing that your kid is autistic because you chose to give him the MMR vaccine.<\/strong><\/p>\n I dunno… I think it would be harder being so deluded that you believe that lie that vaccines cause autism even after *MULTIPLE* studies of millions of children proved that they don’t along with Dr. Andrew Wakefield admitting that he lied, The Lancet<\/u> issuing a retraction, and Dr. Wakefield being stricken from the British Medical Record for knowingly deceiving people. But that’s just me. *smiles with teeth*<\/p>\n What other stupid things like these have you heard people saying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every parent of a special kiddo has had at least one person make a stupid remark to them. Some people have even let me do guest posts on this subject. \ud83d\ude42 Now that I’m kinda sorta done with hell week … Continue reading