Originally Posted by fan4ever (Post 9903692)

Y'know, I can get people being irritated by things like this in addition to it being a situation they don't understand or appreciate. In all honesty, I wouldn't like it either...but isn't that when we're supposed to better than that? The Golden Rule? Maybe take a second to think about what these people's lives are like and maybe the last thing they need is a crappy neighbor making things even worse.

Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 9903680)

From what my wife said....she was probably around 40-50.

Stupid thing is.....is my daughter is quiet and polite. You'd never know she was there because she doesn't make a ton of a noise. The stupid **** just didn't like the fact that she had to share the same air with her. AFAIC.....the old bitch can stop breathing and die.

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9903693)

He's not defending the letter. That's not the proper way to deal with it.

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9903381)

Well, some people are telling stories about their encounters with mentally handicapped folks. On the side, JASONSAUTO and Frazod are bitching at each other about nothing.

Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 9903721)

I do have a ton of respect for parents who have to go through what they go through on a daily basis. I was best friends with a kid in high school who had a mentally handicapped brother and I always asked him how he dealt with everything. His brother was around 3 years older than us and spent most of the day in the "special" classes....but kids are obviously dickheads and used to make fun of him all the time.

Originally Posted by fan4ever (Post 9903692)

Y'know, I can get people being irritated by things like this in addition to it being a situation they don't understand or appreciate. In all honesty, I wouldn't like it either...but isn't that when we're supposed to better than that? The Golden Rule? Maybe take a second to think about what these people's lives are like and maybe the last thing they need is a crappy neighbor making things even worse.

Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 9903742)

This is my fear of having kids.
I don't think I could handle it.

I'm broke and stressed out as is.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9903741)

After you take a second to think about all the possibilities, maybe you can conceive of situations where a family with a special needs child actually has some responsibility to prevent certain foreseeable outcomes. Just to come up with an easy to understand example (even though it's highly unlikely), if the mother of a special needs child lets the child play in the car that's parked in the back yard by honking it's horn at 2 am while the neighbors are trying to sleep, the problem would be the child's mother not the angry neighbors.

I don't know that I can fully appreciate the difficulties people like you and my friend face, but I think I appreciate it enough to understand that a reasonable amount of slack should be given. But that slack isn't endless.

Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 9903634)

Once again....not in the same aspect of what you're going through....but my 6 year old daughter has to get 24 hour EEGs 3 or 4 times a year to measure her brain activity. So for 24 hours...she has to wear electrodes on her head...and her head is then wrapped up so she doesn't mess with them. All of the electrodes are attached to wires that run down to a backpack that she has to wear. Everytime that my daughter gets one done....my wife takes her out for lunch and to pick out a small toy.

My wife called me crying one time because they were out eating lunch and some lady walked by the table they were sitting at and said under her breath "she shouldn't even be here.....keep her at home next time". ****ing **** is lucky I wasn't there because I would have snapped.

Originally Posted by fan4ever (Post 9903767)

Absolutely; that's why (I posted this earlier) I don't take my son to movies although he loves them. He can't stay quiet and I don't want to ruin the movie for everyone else. Some parents do feel that since they've been given this burden, everyone else should accomodate them and that's unfortunate because it really is counter-productive.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9903760)

I'm fortunate enough to have kids who are healthy and that's stressful enough. I really can't imagine how difficult it must be to take care of children who have serious, long term health problems whether physical or mental. I have a great deal of respect for the people with the strength to do it.

Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 9903742)

This is my fear of having kids.
I don't think I could handle it.

I'm broke and stressed out as is.