[Kate*]

Illness, disability, and being victimized AREN'T a "choice to self-pity" that's just fucked up. I lack empathy, but you can post that!? The really sad thing is that people will agree with you.

If you don't want to think of yourself or your child as broken, then that's perfectly fine, but you CAN'T expect the world to bend over backwards for you because you're "different" Teach them to self-advocate for what's necessary for their functioning, not to demand that their comfort be catered to.

I can't do this, and if the end result is failure no matter what, then there is no point trying this hard. I know he did, and I clung to that, but if there are no options then there is no point.

I'm past the raw emotion I never thought I'd survive, but now I've just given up, something else I never thought I'd do. Of course, everything I never thought would happen has happened so it only makes sense. Even if there was a way out of this, I don't have the resources to pursue it.