OMG, i can't believe she said that!!!
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OMG, i can't believe she said that!!!
| Wed, 05-19-2004 - 4:28pm |
o you guys, i could just kill my neighbor right now!!
we were talking about our kids (she has a 6 mo) and i mentioned that the reason my 18 mo old is smaller than her 6 mo is because he was was premie and weighed 4 lbs 11 oz at birth and then had failure to thrive for a long time, so he is very small for his age. she looks at me and goes: "o really? does that mean he's going to grow up to be an axe murderer??" i just kinda froze and said "no, what the heck kind of question is that?" she goes "o well i heard that Jefferey Dahmer was a preemie and had failure to thrive, so i thought maybe it made them turn out like that!"
i'm so mad it's not even funny! i want to go strangle her. my son has fought his whole life, and now he's been diagnosed with adhd and we've come sooo far working with him, and she goes and says that, i want to kill her. i know she thinks he is a really strange kid because he's very anti-social, but that was sooo below the belt!! arrgh....the things people say..
clarity
we were talking about our kids (she has a 6 mo) and i mentioned that the reason my 18 mo old is smaller than her 6 mo is because he was was premie and weighed 4 lbs 11 oz at birth and then had failure to thrive for a long time, so he is very small for his age. she looks at me and goes: "o really? does that mean he's going to grow up to be an axe murderer??" i just kinda froze and said "no, what the heck kind of question is that?" she goes "o well i heard that Jefferey Dahmer was a preemie and had failure to thrive, so i thought maybe it made them turn out like that!"
i'm so mad it's not even funny! i want to go strangle her. my son has fought his whole life, and now he's been diagnosed with adhd and we've come sooo far working with him, and she goes and says that, i want to kill her. i know she thinks he is a really strange kid because he's very anti-social, but that was sooo below the belt!! arrgh....the things people say..
clarity


sara
and what's even worse, her kid has extremely bad nystagmus (wall-eye) and congenital cataracts, and he's 6 mo old and can't focus, smile, sit up, nothing. so it's a very bad case of "people in glass houses.." kwim?? she of all people should know better.
clarity
I'm thinking the "B" word in reference to your neighbor..... Congrats for showing restraint. - Suzanne
I would be upset as well.
Are you sure she was not joking? Even so, it was not the nice thing to say.
I think you should talk to her about what she said and how it made you feel, and then go from there.