Neighbors

We are the token "special needs" family in the neighborhood. (lucky us!)

As a result, we are the scapegoat for anything that goes wrong in the neighborhood, even though my kids aren't the ones running around unsupervised doing God knows what in the "woods" area.

We had a neighborhood kid who broke into cars, houses, etc. but he was an "NT" (neurotypical) so it was just a case of "boys will be boys". Yeah, right.

Yeah, the special needs kids are all troublemakers and the "normal" ones are all angels, all the time as far as some of my neighbors are concerned. Uh huh.

We finally saved up enough money to do some home improvement on our house - it looks good, thanks to the phenomenal job our friends did - but some of the neighbors still hate us. We'll always be the odd ones out, the special needs family. Ugh.