Feel like SCREAMIN!! !

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Did you ever go onto the parent forum and get actually dizzy?? Why is it that as soon as a child gets a diagnosis, every frickin thing that they do - even those things that every child in the world does!! - gets magnified and scrutinized as if under a microscope and the questions come! Questions like,"should she be doing this?" "Why does he do this?" It is so painful to read! Kids are kids. Why can't kids on the spectrum be kids too without being over-scrutinized for God's sake? Nt kids are permitted to breath. Why aren't AS kids allowed to just be?

Yeah, I have felt like that about it for years, to be honest. For the most part I avoid the parents section, only taking the occasional detour there, and these days usually only go there if I see a report. Some of the things there can be triggering, so I avoid it when I can. Please note that that is not to say it's all like that or they all post like that there, nor is this a response due to any particular post or poster, but there is enough of it that I'd rather go elsewhere when I can.

NT kid does something; kids will be kids. Pretty much anything an aspie child does or says; they don't know how to behave or it is otherwise tied to their diagnosis. I am so glad I was a kid way before Asperger's became a diagnosis, so I didn't know and never got to be treated like that. I absolutely hate how to some we become walking diagnoses whose every action must be seen in light of that.

Guess what? We were kids too, before anything else! We were mischievous, intentionally misbehaving, unintentionally making mistakes, being good, getting things right and wrong, learning along the way, being playful, setting our own limits, learning our weaknesses and strengths, you know basically being kids like everyone else!
Why is it so hard to remember this?