Tourettes syndrome kids.
I'm watching the ABC Primetime show about teens with Tourettes syndrome, and my heart is just breaking.
Watching what these families go through every single day is just exhausting, I can't even imagine what they deal with.
This one girl, Devon, has been home-schooled most of her life, and they decide to send her to public school.
The stress of it all sends her body into ticks that cause her to hurt herself.
This really is just breaking my heart.
I cannot imagine having a child with this syndrome, and then make them go to public school.
She's 11 years old, that makes her in middle school, and man, what a horrible age that is to begin with, kids are so cruel to each other at this age and grade.
There are some kids who are nice to her, but you know there are kids who are snickering behind her back, some probably even to her face.
I don't know if I could send my child to public school with this syndrome.
I know how cruel kids are, this would send those mean kids into over drive with their torture of the kids who are different.
Comments
Poor kids! And their poor families. I hate to see kids suffer with anything.
Posted by: Devilish Southern Belle | July 16, 2008 3:02 AM
That part about Devon going to public school didnt make sense to me either. Maybe it is just me but when you have a kid with special needs why keep having more and more kids. I have always been curious about that.
Posted by: Angela Fitzgerald | July 16, 2008 10:48 AM
I am involved with the camp these kids are involved in..down here in Bath, NY. It IS heartbreaking.
Posted by: Pete B | July 16, 2008 2:24 PM