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Aspergers...the diagnosis going away?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 433444" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Not that long ago, either... difficult child 3 was called some awful names, including a very derogatory word for "homosexual" coupled with the word "retard". Kids would ride around the streets calling this out to him. When he first heard this, he didn't know what it was and he used the same term back at the kids who used it on him. That was when I got a letter home from the teacher - "difficult child 3 has to learn to not call other kids [insert F***retard term] because it will not win him any friends. He needs to be taught to not use such language."</p><p></p><p>I replied with, "You have known us well for years, know our family and our home, you know he would not hear any words like that here. There is only one other place he heard these words - at school, in your class. And knowing difficult child 3, you can begin by interrogating the kid he applied the term to, as the one most likely to have first used that term towards difficult child 3. The inclusion of 'retard' in the insult - it is a term that has been used specifically targetting difficult child 3. So he is the victim here, not the instigator."</p><p></p><p>I never got a response - I strongly suspect that the kid who was the recipient of that insult (and therefore the initial user of the term towards difficult child 3) was the teacher's own son. Very unhealthy situation...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 433444, member: 1991"] Not that long ago, either... difficult child 3 was called some awful names, including a very derogatory word for "homosexual" coupled with the word "retard". Kids would ride around the streets calling this out to him. When he first heard this, he didn't know what it was and he used the same term back at the kids who used it on him. That was when I got a letter home from the teacher - "difficult child 3 has to learn to not call other kids [insert F***retard term] because it will not win him any friends. He needs to be taught to not use such language." I replied with, "You have known us well for years, know our family and our home, you know he would not hear any words like that here. There is only one other place he heard these words - at school, in your class. And knowing difficult child 3, you can begin by interrogating the kid he applied the term to, as the one most likely to have first used that term towards difficult child 3. The inclusion of 'retard' in the insult - it is a term that has been used specifically targetting difficult child 3. So he is the victim here, not the instigator." I never got a response - I strongly suspect that the kid who was the recipient of that insult (and therefore the initial user of the term towards difficult child 3) was the teacher's own son. Very unhealthy situation... Marg [/QUOTE]
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