Reply #56: Right there---you have your answer....

[msanthrope]

My kid was ahead of the curve in what mattered--a sense of love, empathy, and joy. She's amazingly funny and an endearing odd ball.

She was behind the curve in milestones like making eye contact, appropriate response to stimuli, communication.....

She was a kid who had perfect, and amusing enunciation as she played along, completely oblivious to her teachers....and even now, she is just amazing, I would not change a thing.

So I respect your experience, too, and I do not discount it--I merely view it differently.

We did not fuck up our children. We got dealt a shitty hand, (which could be faaaaar worse!) and you, like me, are just trying to do what is best.