This has been floating around Facebook. I don’t know who wrote it originally, but it brought a tear to my eye. Many parents of special needs children see this going on with their kids. It is heartbreaking when it happens. Please, please, please, let your children know we all have differences and those differences are what makes each of us special in our own way!
I would just like to put this out there! If your kids are not around special needs kids at school and have never been taught that not everyone is the same then maybe you could take 10 minutes tonight to explain this to them because even though they may not be around these kids at school, they may see them at church, at the mall, at the grocery store or even at the park. In light of recent events on the exclusion of a child who has autism from participating in a school trip and a Down Syndrome child being kicked out of dance class because she couldn’t keep up, I felt the need to share this. There are boys and girls that nobody invites to birthday parties, for example. There are special kids who want to belong to a team but don’t get selected because it is more important to win than include these children. Children with special needs are not rare or strange, they only want what everyone else wants: to be accepted!!
The Season Of Myths 