To blog, or not to blog..............

A question I am asked occasionally, is why do I not blog more?

For me, this is a mixed bag. Some can be attributed to the fact that I lack the time (given what I face in the home, and all the focus and energy that requires). Some is the fact that there is no real privacy on the internet, and information can lead back to you and particular opinion's you express *may* or *may not* affect the view of your child, as well as your professional life. And then simply, there's those pesky naysayers who make it their mission to disagree with everything you say, and add to the upheaval that is already your life.

Add to that, the time already used with the 5,000 social networks, feeds, and other miscellaneous sources being utilized to stay ahead of the game, with respect to what is going on with this particular disorder/methodology/legal logistics, etc.

There is the occupational hazard of being involved in the special education world, and though you say your work will remain at work, you find yourself bringing work home to eat up what precious little free time you may have available.

There are countless hours spent reading, crafting, and drafting emails with regard to your own child's progress, educational program, behavioral intervention design, and the research required to be your own advocate, and align your commentary with legal statutes and provisions.

In a nutshell, there is very little time to post anything meaningful, coherent, or even worthy of interest to other people out there. Some of us are spent.

What was the whole point of this rant, you say? Aside from justifying my bad blogger tendencies (as some would say, if your going to leave it idle, remove it), I was reminded today that sometimes, you need to make that time.

I ran across a blog recently of some parents who like many of us are, very isolated and feeling alone in their daily battle of raising special needs children. They detail what many of us experience on a daily basis, as well as far too often the fallout, and lack of support that we often desperately need. Cue naysayers in 1, 2, 3, 4...................

Let me just make this bold assertion of my opinion, and be quite clear about what I don't want to hear. We may seem negative. We may seem as though we are complaining about what we were handed with these special needs children, and all that entails. We are often lost, and tired. We often have no support available for us to keep from hitting the lowest of lows. We do have small victories, and joys with regard to our children; we often miss them because we are beyond stressed, and over worked. We do not always voice those joys, because often people look down on us for thinking something so small was worthy of noting (the classic double edged sword we face daily).

I find this behavior in general irritating, and it keeps me away from blogging as well. I will say though, until you've lived it, you really have no legitimate opinion to express.

So whereas I may not become a regular blogger from this point forward, I do realize the need to try a little harder. Parents like us are the only support system we have out there, and the only people who will truly help us through our darkest days.................