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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 647415" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Cheryl - that's part of the problem with replacing difficult child. There IS no other phrase that really captures it. Difficult child? that would apply to my easy one. difficult child is... well, I guess, that one is just more like other kids being discussed on this forum. I know that I would never have searched for "difficult child". It doesn't say enough. I wouldn't have searched for difficult child either. "Conduct disorder" got me here... difficult child doesn't have it, it was just suggested as a possibility... or I still wouldn't have found this site.</p><p> </p><p>Personally, I have no problem with the extension of diagnosis, husband, etc. Those pretty much make sense. It's like "tsp" on a recipe site - if you know recipes, you know that it means teaspoon, but it doesn't bother the rest of us who know recipes if the site uses "teaspoon" instead of "tsp".</p><p> </p><p>There just isn't really a good replacement that I can come up with for difficult child. A difficult child is "the reason we are here". It's the "person with multiple challenges" - not always a child. It's the undiagnosed, the unexplainable, the... impossible person. None of which would ever be used in a search engine, if you know what I mean?</p><p> </p><p>I'm with some of the others that it makes sense to keep the short forms in sigs. We don't have unlimited space in a sig, and it really gets tiresome to see the same sig over and over when they are LONG. Short forms enable us to tell each other a lot in a short space.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 647415, member: 11791"] Cheryl - that's part of the problem with replacing difficult child. There IS no other phrase that really captures it. Difficult child? that would apply to my easy one. difficult child is... well, I guess, that one is just more like other kids being discussed on this forum. I know that I would never have searched for "difficult child". It doesn't say enough. I wouldn't have searched for difficult child either. "Conduct disorder" got me here... difficult child doesn't have it, it was just suggested as a possibility... or I still wouldn't have found this site. Personally, I have no problem with the extension of diagnosis, husband, etc. Those pretty much make sense. It's like "tsp" on a recipe site - if you know recipes, you know that it means teaspoon, but it doesn't bother the rest of us who know recipes if the site uses "teaspoon" instead of "tsp". There just isn't really a good replacement that I can come up with for difficult child. A difficult child is "the reason we are here". It's the "person with multiple challenges" - not always a child. It's the undiagnosed, the unexplainable, the... impossible person. None of which would ever be used in a search engine, if you know what I mean? I'm with some of the others that it makes sense to keep the short forms in sigs. We don't have unlimited space in a sig, and it really gets tiresome to see the same sig over and over when they are LONG. Short forms enable us to tell each other a lot in a short space. [/QUOTE]
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