tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post7117630360635059211..comments2023-10-16T05:31:07.076-07:00Comments on Ain't That Sherific?: We are all so different . . .Sherihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598822471867683429noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-30121601333724013082009-03-27T14:43:00.000-07:002009-03-27T14:43:00.000-07:00I'm liking this one. :0)I'm liking this one. :0)my life:https://www.blogger.com/profile/02312183059834467151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-53799147823406014582009-03-26T13:24:00.000-07:002009-03-26T13:24:00.000-07:00So True! I try to leave a blessing when I leave a ...So True! I try to leave a blessing when I leave a comment. I can't give advise to the situations... But I can lift up a family in payer. Or I can leave a funny. Good gravey what happend to the golden rule. <BR/><BR/>-megMeg an Aggie in Friscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12276898787423530689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-7627557476663282152009-03-26T04:12:00.000-07:002009-03-26T04:12:00.000-07:00People judge because they know no difference. May...People judge because they know no difference. Maybe they were raised this way, maybe they feel an entitlement, maybe a few of them are just evil, who knows?<BR/><BR/>The point is the only opinion that matters is your own and if you beleive you are doing everything possible to navigate your life to the best of your ability then you have nothing to worry about. <BR/><BR/>I think you write with honesty and integrity and are setting a fine example for others to follow if they so choose. The whole, "You can lead a horse to water..."<BR/><BR/>Don't change a thing about yourself that you are not led to change from that still, silent voice within. You ARE loved beyond measure.Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303174242363531142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-37101574885029035042009-03-25T17:05:00.000-07:002009-03-25T17:05:00.000-07:00Thanks for sharing your thoughts! There is a lot t...Thanks for sharing your thoughts! There is a lot to digest there, so for now I will just say.. wow, I love it when bloggers "think out loud" and share it with us. Thanks! YES, I ALWAYS tell people about my "friends" (from blogs). I wish I had made up names for my family, too. I have not used my kids names at my blog (I think, anyway).. I just call them son, daughter, etc. (boring) I guess I could make up names for them, but my own name is real.... shucks.Carol E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02741550863747328734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-13721955133539882412009-03-25T15:41:00.000-07:002009-03-25T15:41:00.000-07:00I've been thinking of getting rid of mine (blog) a...I've been thinking of getting rid of mine (blog) again (I did it w/ my 1st one) mostly because I'm too afraid of being completely honest...I don't care about others judging me too harshly (ok...a little bit) but about the damage they can cause by judging w/out having all the facts.zunzunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01202160546231144260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-13037735685023606252009-03-25T14:52:00.000-07:002009-03-25T14:52:00.000-07:00Your words...my same exact thoughts. More eloquent...Your words...my same exact thoughts. More eloquently than I ever could. See.....this is why I love you!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16146320008307628429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-6509507337721205992009-03-25T10:48:00.000-07:002009-03-25T10:48:00.000-07:00I thought I heard lots of meowing when I was writi...I thought I heard lots of meowing when I was writing this Linda! LOLSherihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16598822471867683429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-24490234144909973732009-03-25T10:45:00.000-07:002009-03-25T10:45:00.000-07:00Yup, I'm in total agreement. I could write a long ...Yup, I'm in total agreement. I could write a long comment on why I agree with what you wrote, but then I'd just be putting your post in this comment. You looked inside my head today. Scary place, huh!Linda Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978492301293470296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-52546403635559149942009-03-25T10:05:00.000-07:002009-03-25T10:05:00.000-07:00I was just telling Hubbins about what you had to g...I was just telling Hubbins about what you had to go through when Dustin ran away. <BR/><BR/>I talk about you guys in blogland to him all the time. <BR/><BR/>It's funny...I do get jealous about respite and PCAs and stuff but most of the time I find myself saying I don't know how x does it, I couldn't do it. <BR/><BR/>I find I'm harder on my friends who have children who aren't special needs and can't take it. That's when I get all "for cryin out loud, you have no clue and you wanna have more!." lol Harsh I know. *smirk* But then I turn it around on myself and say "you want to have your own and look what you've got already." sooo...<BR/><BR/>I know how much of what I don't tell on my blog about what my kids do to know that we all have stuff we are dealing with that just can't be shared. I think it's so ridiculous when people try to come at us and have no clue. Somehow I have learned to tune it out. Even IRL, it has surprised me because I've found myself looking at a person coming at me and then thinking "Hmmm, did you say something?" because I have totally tuned them out. <BR/><BR/>You aren't alone.Reighniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03249582936717929919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-38826640563833125142009-03-25T09:04:00.000-07:002009-03-25T09:04:00.000-07:00I get what you are saying. I have seen the attack...I get what you are saying. I have seen the attacks, I have been attacked and I too have added my $.02 in heated situations. <BR/><BR/>I have found the times I personally have been attacked is when I express my own personal view on something. I have to shrug it off and not take it too seriously, afterall, I am entitled to my point of view and maybe just maybe the person attacking may have a valid point I have not considered. <BR/><BR/>More often than not Sheri, as you and I have agreed and disagreed, I have remained to true to the fact that we each have our own burdens to carry and we don't always understand what the other one is going through. I respect and admire you for the fact that you have not given up on Dustin, so many would have turned their backs to him by now. There are times I read your posts and think I would have lost my mind by now. <BR/><BR/>There are times while raising my three kids that I wonder if I am going to survive. I go to my parents and say "when I get these kids raised..." and they just laugh at me as I am their child sitting there expressing all of my woes to them and am indeed, still their kid that they are "still" raising.<BR/><BR/>Thank goodness we have ways to vent and deal with all of our frustrations as life comes at us fast and in full color, to me the blogs are a newer high tech version of the journals we are taught to keep in school and are encouraged by therapists for all kinds of treatments. Blogs are ours and our life and therapy for most of us.JR - A Green Eyed Gurl....https://www.blogger.com/profile/11726255362725707892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-31505086113904983472009-03-25T08:30:00.000-07:002009-03-25T08:30:00.000-07:00I've had these same thoughts many times, Sheri. I...I've had these same thoughts many times, Sheri. I am constantly trying to balance my need for support with my desire to educate and my responsibility to protect my family. <BR/><BR/>I get several emails a week from professionals and families who stumbled across my blog and now better understand someone in their lives who may have FASD...and I do feel less alone in this world because of you, my invisible friends, but it does come at a cost and Torina's experience just reminded us all of that. <BR/><BR/>"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank<BR/><BR/>I believe it, too. ~KariKarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13823015360549493983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-21051875712907842632009-03-25T07:48:00.000-07:002009-03-25T07:48:00.000-07:00I do think the stuff with Torina and others echoes...I do think the stuff with Torina and others echoes into our own lives. Makes me sensitive and nervous. <BR/>You are not alone, I am always telling my family blogland stories!Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530972001172936718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655703.post-83619049387487815522009-03-25T07:12:00.000-07:002009-03-25T07:12:00.000-07:00Good post! I have thought about this many times. ...Good post! I have thought about this many times. I try hard not to leave any kind of judgmental comment on any blog because I figure I have no clue what is really happening and I give everyone I read the benefit of the doubt. That's why it always jars me when others don't do the same for me.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, it doesn't happen often that I get blasted -- even though sometimes I may deserve it.<BR/><BR/>But I make sure that I do my best not to judge -- I don't know you and I"m not walking in your shoes. <BR/><BR/>We are all experts when it comes to how someone else SHOULD be parenting. ;-)Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02057662343562530495noreply@blogger.com