Hello all! I haven’t posted here because I’m halfway afraid someone will find this and figure out who I am and let my MIL know how I feel. So here I am and wanting to post about something that happened recently with my DS.

My MIL has said for months and months that DS isn’t normal, is autistic, needs speech therapy, etc. DS is my oldest and a toddler who had serious health issues at birth that continued through his first year. MIL is convinced she knows everything and drives me nuts with her comments about how my DS needs early intervention for things that he’s been slow on.

Cue our first visit to a new pediatrician. I’m rolling in on very little sleep due to newborn babe, and the night before our appointment, I filled out this questionnaire online for oldest DS about developmental milestones. When the doctor came in, she immediately jumped to wanting us to do early intervention in case they could help with some unrelated issues (unrelated to developmental milestones). Now that the appointment has passed, I get that she wanted us to do it before DS was too old for the program since it’s free up to a certain age in my state.

We had our consultation and I was a hot mess of anger, fear, and frustration that MIL might be right about DS. The lady from early intervention was great, calmed my fears, and just jumped right into “playing” with DS. At the end, she basically said he’s slightly delayed in one area that can easily be fixed but otherwise is a “baby genius” (her words). I got the letter in the mail the next week saying he didn’t qualify for their services, which was a huge relief.

So I triumphantly texted all this to MIL only to get this response: “I told you once he started to talk he wouldn’t stop.”

I saw red. I texted back: “No, you said he needed speech therapy.”

Her response: “Well, he’s normal now.”

Really? Really?!? He’s normal now?! He’s ALWAYS been normal, crazy lady!

Never have I wanted to slap someone so hard. If she’d been in front of me saying that to my face, my hand would have flown.

Sorry, I just needed to rant a bit and hear that it’s okay for me to be angry about that.