They almost had me thinking that maybe he was a little lazy and that was why he didn't have as much endurance for physical activities and couldn't write for more than five minutes before complaining that his hands hurt. It was horrible to have people think I was either crazy or lying.
It's really tough to hear this as parents, particularly when our kids are young and we are still working through figuring out what's up. I think I became somewhat used to dealing with it eventually. The one thing that struck me when I was reading this again this morning is that now that my ds is older... he's starting to have to also deal with those comments and thoughts (he has issues very similar to Lori's ds). I suppose part of going through the comments as parents is what we need to do to work through how to model for our kids how to deal with them, which they will ultimately have to face.
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