Comments on: Can You Sit By Me?

By: squid

squid — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:59:13 +0000

Thanks Kristina! A really lovely and contemplative post.

@stela, heh heh heh. One of the reasons I have fluorescent orange hair at the moment. People are going to stare anyhow; why not direct some attention away from my son.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:06:08 +0000

@Joan,

Earlier comment mentioning Ari Ne’eman and Michael Savage.

By: stela

stela — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:50:05 +0000

I’d add “weird parent saddled” to that list, also.
When Gypsy was a little boy I had a bright pink punk hair cut. People stared at us walking along with his wheelchair anyway and I figured if he noticed he could put it down to them staring at his crazy mum.

We’re a big wiggles household also. I regularly find myself humming or singing some while doing housework or walking down the street (”stop at the light, look both ways, look both ways again..’) even with no Gypsy around.
Our car is coming to the end of it’s life and I’ve decided our next one is going to be red so we can sing that song and it will have personal meaning!

By: bonnie

bonnie — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:10:43 +0000

What a beautiful entry. Thank you! I can relate to this in so many ways, and dred the upcoming school years for my son in relation to what that author wrote. So much so that I often consider homeschooling on that basis alone. The only problem is he enjoys school too much too, if you can call that a problem!

We were at a ballgame last night and I noted so many little guys Casey’s age , 3 or 4 together, having fun and interacting the way boys do and it breaks my heart that my little guy can’t socially be in that kind of situation…yet (glass half full), but I looked at him sitting between his loving folks and for him, I know that’s a lot, and fortunately, he wasn’t looking at those boys and feeling sad.

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:57:26 +0000

As always, a great post. I’m curious if anyone heard Ari Ne’eman’s PSA on the Michael Savage show on Friday. I heard it was good. I’m just curious about it.