If you know me, you know there isn’t a lot that bothers me.  I am fine with pretty much everyone and anyone.  I collect friends from all walks of life.  They all have different religions, political views, and ideas.  I sometimes don’t agree with them, but I typically keep my thoughts to myself.  Because I hate controversy almost as much as I hate making people feel bad.

There is one thing – ONE THING – that I will argue with.  One thing I will correct EVERY SINGLE TIME. 

Here it is:  It is not an autistic child, a Down’s boy, a speech disordered girl.  (It was even hard for me to type those.)  A child is not a diagnosis first.  A child is a child first.

If you feel the need to label a child, make sure you label them with the important stuff first.  A child with autism, a boy with Down’s Syndrome, a girl with a speech disorder.  Because their diagnosis does not define them.

That is all.  Shortest blog post ever.  But it needed to be said.