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How do you get extended family to back off?
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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 424836" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Then try this - </p><p> </p><p>The next time they can't SEE Jacobs disability? Turn and ask them - "Would you ask a child who used a wheelchair who just didn't happen to be in a wheelchair at that moment to walk too?" Would you blame his inability to walk on the way his parents raised him? Just because you can't SEE his handicap, doens't mean it doesn't exist, or that you can wish it away. Jacob has an invisible handicap, he doesn't need a wheelchair or crutches to make it real to you or me or anyone else. It is there, we ARE working to improve the outcome, and it does take time, patience, a differnt way of learning AND a different way of parenting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 424836, member: 4964"] Then try this - The next time they can't SEE Jacobs disability? Turn and ask them - "Would you ask a child who used a wheelchair who just didn't happen to be in a wheelchair at that moment to walk too?" Would you blame his inability to walk on the way his parents raised him? Just because you can't SEE his handicap, doens't mean it doesn't exist, or that you can wish it away. Jacob has an invisible handicap, he doesn't need a wheelchair or crutches to make it real to you or me or anyone else. It is there, we ARE working to improve the outcome, and it does take time, patience, a differnt way of learning AND a different way of parenting. [/QUOTE]
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