I don't understand

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How can someone work with disabled children and be completely understanding of all their problems, but when their own child answers a question that they didn't know they weren't meant to answer (I was just providing the information asked for; I didn't know that there was subtext I had to watch for), they are "a smart***"? And that when they can't function better than a child in some areas, they are "lazy"?

I don't get it.

Maybe s/he is worn out from the work week, and wants to believe s/he can turn off the brain for a while?

Maybe s/he is not "completely understanding" on the job, either?

Because everybody who's different, from the social worker's point of view, is automatically considered to be inferior. Even if the child they are working with is very intelligent in some areas. The social worker theoretically knows about the child's special needs, but still views the child's differences as deficiencies that must be molded to the norm. The "understanding" is just a phase; the real purpose of doing so is not to accept the child for who he/she is.