Very grumbly tonight, we had a birthday party for my child recently and invited their entire antenatal class, their entire nursery class, and any children of our friends and family. About half of the nursery class ended up bringing siblings so the party was full to the brim and we were charged extra by the entertainment company but were happy to do so as we wanted to be inclusive. We also went out of our way to accommodate picky eaters, arranging entirely different food for them. In the last week I’ve found out that 4 children at the party have all had recent birthday parties and my child wasn’t invited to any of them. They didn’t have capacity issues, from the photos I’ve seen they were pretty sparse on the ground. I’m so annoyed at myself for going the extra mile to include asshats who give zero
people about my child, I’m so frustrated that I agonised for weeks over making sure we’d invited everyone and not left them out. My heart hurts for my poor kid, they love being around their peers and are so happy, I hate that the special needs child gets excluded and no one bats an eye, and I’m enraged that they turned up without a shred of embarrassment for how two faced they were being