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Kaylon8083

It's really difficult to get a child into a special needs school, I've got friends who have had to fight to get their child a place in one. Autistic adults are treated badly on Mumsnet too - I think someone called them "unfeeling monsters" and I had to tell my Autistic friend to stop reading the Asperger Support threads because she got so upset and thought that if she got into a relationship, any partner would resent her .

I've seen the way Autistic adults are treated in my line of work by people who remind me of Mumsnetters.
 
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maytoseptember

Kaylon8083 said:
It's really difficult to get a child into a special needs school, I've got friends who have had to fight to get their child a place in one.
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Special needs school places are as rare as hen’s teeth. You can’t simply take your child out of mainstream and rock up at a SEN school the following week, can you? The fights with the local authorities, the insistence that mainstream can meet a child’s needs when they can’t, the message that all local SEN schools are full, the tribunals…

I knew a child who should never have been sent to mainstream, it’s just completely the wrong setting for them. In Reception the parents had to start looking for a SEN school. A place was awarded, but not until year 2. So they had to stay in mainstream, being taken out of class and sat on their own with a TA, for an entire extra year. It was so upsetting to see how badly this child was failed. Everyone did their best but it wasn’t good enough.
 
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Yel

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Sglodion said:
I genuinely can't tell anymore if some of these are Russian propaganda accounts or if loads of people really are this thick.
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Mail online definitely has lots of Russian propaganda accounts, I wouldn't be surprised if mumsnet has some also. The site has a high opinion of itself and I doubt mumsnet would do anything to prevent propaganda accounts as they actively welcome the batshit lunacy.
 
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Sglodion

Yel said:
I doubt mumsnet would do anything to prevent propaganda accounts
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A couple of people mentioned that they had similar suspicions and were reporting the thread. Of course it's still there, but most of the posts raising concerns have been deleted for 'troll hunting'
 
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Puppys

Aussie said:
There is currently a thread this morning about daughter who is 14 & having her Boyfriend who is 13 sleep over. I really hope this one is a troll.
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No no no just no

mindlessness said:
Delighted (and horrifed) to let you all know there is currently a thread in AIBU asking people if they wash their sheets after every time they have sex. A chance to boast OR complain about one's sex life and be smug about one's home-making etc.
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Haha

and she needs to question lack of friendships

Both my kids are asd this is heartbreaking to read
 
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Gym&Tonic

Until I started working with children like this I didn’t realise just how much disdain there was towards them. The dirty looks and glares from other people when out and about are shocking.
 
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HockyRorror

I’ve mentioned it before but the funniest post I saw on Mumsnet was when a woman with a young daughter asked for ideas to earn money and someone suggested she played a tambourine busking on the street while her daughter danced and performed for passer-bys
 
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Fledgling Psycho

Hahaha. To be fair, if they were any good, it's a novelty act.
 
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HockyRorror

Bored and unable to sleep. Reading one of those “what stories do you have about your child embarrassing you” threads. There was a lot of “my DD couldn’t pronounce L’s so she’d point whenever she saw a clock and loudly shout COCK” types and kids just being their usual selves “why is that lady big?” “Why does that man have brown skin?” Etc etc. One poster comes along and calls the children racist and fatphobic. Keep in mind the average age of the children on the thread is THREE.
 
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Melian

chickhicks86 said:
Is it insensitive for William and Kate to have given their dog an Irish name. WTF am I reading????
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I seem to remember their other dog is called Lupo which is Italian. Wonder if there was as many people complaining?
 
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rivermonster

Get over there now - there is a brilliant one at the moment which is so funny and happening now. Builder parking twat.
 
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Lalla

rivermonster said:
Get over there now - there is a brilliant one at the moment which is so funny and happening now. Builder parking twat.
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I saw this one but wasn't sure if it was made up. I'm always suspicious half the parking ones are not genuine!
 
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Iceache

All her arguments are lost on me as all I can think when I read it is yum pizza mmmmmmmmmm
 
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Lulu Goss

Gym&Tonic said:
You couldn’t make this shit up, could you?
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“Am I ahead of the learning curve” ffs

No you must be one of the only people to know that too much pizza would be unhealthy (which this is not), so definitely go and educate the teachers with your knowledge!
 
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