avoid or doesnt change your opinion

**workin'mumof2** · 29-07-2009 14:16

Maybe thats not really a good title as its not always that simple.

You meet someone new.

Then you find out they have a special needs child

do you still hang out with them or would you start to avoid them?

just curious.

i will add a poll but put an other option. if there is an other option

**nothanksbye** · 29-07-2009 14:18

I have several friends with special needs children.
It affects our friendship about us much as our toilet habits doo..lol...not at all.

My friendships are based on who I get along with not who they are married too or who they parent.

I am friends with my sons bully's mum...now theres a challenge.

**FiveInTheBed** · 29-07-2009 14:20

Stay Friends!

Offer any help I can.

Let my children be around their family so that they can understand.

**Rampant Madness** · 29-07-2009 14:21

I would still hang out with them. Special needs is such a broad term!!

**bronny-jane** · 29-07-2009 14:21

id be friends still

why wouldnt anyone.. kind of shallow

**Chunkydunks** · 29-07-2009 14:22

I wouldn't let something like that effect a friendship. Seems a bit odd that people might. Not that anyone has said they would yet.

**traseal** · 29-07-2009 14:22

Originally Posted by Sabio

I have several friends with special needs children.
It affects our friendship about us much as our toilet habits doo..lol...not at all.

My friendships are based on who I get along with not who they are married too or who they parent.

Exactly

**Jax Tellers Old Lady** · 29-07-2009 14:24

I would stay friends with them without hesitaton. I fail to see what affect it would have on a friendship. Is a child pure and simple regardless of him or her having a specal need. It would be shallow to think otherwise.

**Nowhere** · 29-07-2009 14:25

Stay friends with them off course

**bAaM** · 29-07-2009 14:25

I actually have made a wonderful friend with a little downs boy, and he is wonderful. I dont think of him as any different to my own children.

She is a wonderful person and does a terrific job of raising her kids. It doesnt mater to me whether my friends kids are SN, BF/FF, black/white. I will still love them cause there just as special as anyone elses children.

I think alot of ppl may be intimidated by SN kids or even SN adults but all it takes is spending some time and asking questions to realise that they are perfect in there own wonderful way.