Reply To: Special Needs Sibling

Thank you for replying rosesharon! Can you say you’ve accepted the situation now..? “I also understand what it is like to have an older sibling that you have surpassed…It is very hard and psychologically draining to be the older sibling in some ways when the person is older than you are.” This is one of the hardest points for child and family! It’s good to hear somebody understands it!!

The problem is that the younger siblings find it very hard to accept because that will mean changing their behaviour which they don’t want to do.. But I think that with time they’ll grow older and take into account the “special” siblings feelings.. About making it “taboo” this was the parents way of dealing with it.. I suppose it many ways it made him more “regular” because he wasn’t treated differently but it is true that it resulted in less or no understanding from the siblings..