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Is it something in the water?
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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 389211" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>I'm not sure that it is worse...but it is more "seen" today.</p><p> </p><p>Look at all the stuff available online that we didn't even know existed a few years ago. Doesn't mean it wasn't there....it just wasn't so publicized and readily available at the click of a button.</p><p> </p><p>The other day, I saw a segment on television that discussed people with sexual fetishes for helium balloons. I'm not sure that I needed to know these things exist - but now I do. How long have they been around? I have no idea. It's just one of thoe things that have come to light through communication technology. And now people all over the world who get aroused by balloons can connect with one another and have conventions and celebrate it out in the open.</p><p> </p><p>How many of us have felt alone with our difficult child until we came here? It is our communication that "exposes" the amount of difficult child-dom in the world.</p><p> </p><p>In the past, faced with the horrible stress and struggle of a difficult child - I'm willing to be that a lot of those children did not survive to adulthood....they just "disappeared" quietly. The end.</p><p> </p><p>Now that we can communicate and offer support to stressed out families...those kids are out in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Are they worse? I don't know...</p><p> </p><p>But they are definitely better off than the generation before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 389211, member: 6546"] I'm not sure that it is worse...but it is more "seen" today. Look at all the stuff available online that we didn't even know existed a few years ago. Doesn't mean it wasn't there....it just wasn't so publicized and readily available at the click of a button. The other day, I saw a segment on television that discussed people with sexual fetishes for helium balloons. I'm not sure that I needed to know these things exist - but now I do. How long have they been around? I have no idea. It's just one of thoe things that have come to light through communication technology. And now people all over the world who get aroused by balloons can connect with one another and have conventions and celebrate it out in the open. How many of us have felt alone with our difficult child until we came here? It is our communication that "exposes" the amount of difficult child-dom in the world. In the past, faced with the horrible stress and struggle of a difficult child - I'm willing to be that a lot of those children did not survive to adulthood....they just "disappeared" quietly. The end. Now that we can communicate and offer support to stressed out families...those kids are out in the community. Are they worse? I don't know... But they are definitely better off than the generation before. [/QUOTE]
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