Blog recommendation: Special Happens

RantWoman found this item refreshing in its candor. Plus it seems to have a lively community of people with shared experiences.

http://specialhappens.com/2013/09/23/a-letter-to-general-public-ten-things-every-speical-need-parent-wishes-you-did-not-say-to-us/

The home page
http://specialhappens.com/

More truth than people necessarily advertise:
RantWoman and RantBrother with our freaky eye stuff and thick glasses  went all the way through regular school with only a few interventions. RantMom would march into school and demand that someone be seated where we could see the blackboard. There were a couple years when notes went home from the school nurse because RantWoman and RantBrother both flunked school eye exams due to needed increments of surgery. But the RantPARENTS really could have used some moral support not easily available in the small town where we lived. So RantWoman is a BIG fan of people finding communities of shared experience, especially when people can find these communities in easy ways such as the internet or a library or...