My son is highly sensitive to using "therapy tools" in school. As in he WON'T! No matter what I try or say, he won't use them at school because they make him "different". This makes me wonder just how he is going to react someday when he reads all of "THIS". You know my blog, my posts on the SPD Blogger Network, my presentation for school teachers. All of the posts about him and what makes him different. I could talk to a stranger on a bus (not that I take the bus, but you get my point) about SPD to teach them about it, to make them aware. I will talk to anyone who will stand still long enough to hear about it, I can't believe I didn't know about it. I can't believe that no one that we came into contact with (doctors, school teachers, my own teacher training) had never heard of it.
I wonder though how this will all affect him in the long run? Is he going to become an adult who despises the fact it's here on display? Will he appreciate the fact that I was trying to raise awareness? Or will he be upset and feel his privacy violated?
I don't have all of the answers? And I doubt I will stop because I know I have helped others, but I question...is it fair to do it at his expense? Does writing this violate his privacy? I am not profiting from this. Is harm being done? There is no malice. I guess I just wonder about all of this? With the viralness of the internet will a future employer use a "google-like" search engine and find this? If so, will it help or hurt him?
Thoughts to ponder......
Not something that I had thought of...all this blogging helps me, but will it effect my son negatively? In my case, I feel like I was called to put these thoughts into writing, to get them out there, to help others. I can only pray that means it will not be harmful to him.
ReplyDeleteAnd I really feel it is my mission to tell others. I feel this is why I was given my son. To go out there and help other kids and their families learn about this disorder and find ways to cope. I just hope and pray that my son sees it that way as an adult ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's a tough one. I wonder the same thing myself. I hope that he will understand that I wrote as an outlet and that I tried to be respectful to him and his siblings. I hope that's enough....
ReplyDeleteWell, since you don't use your name or his, and by the time he reads this he won't at all look lie the pic (though I think that may be other child), I personally wouldn't worry about it. Mamas need a place to work through their thoughts and concerns and receive feedback and comfort and encouragement. Now if you were posting as Melissa Spade and her son Roger Spade who is in Miss Rebecca Myers class at Johnson Elementary in Lincoln, NE... I'd have chatted with you a LONG time ago =)
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