Loneliness

Hello Welsh chatter and welcome

Thanks for joining our community, I am so sorry that you feel alone. It can be very hard for those of us with disabilities to socially interact.

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CR

Hi @Welsh_chatter I have a little one who is 4 and has a disability.  Generally we get on absolutely fine and I love her to bits! But, as you say it can be pretty isolating and lonely. 

I was really hoping to make friends with other parents when she started school but most kids come in taxis so I never get chance to chat at the school gates.

Families whose children don't have disabilities don't really understand, and we never get invited to things, especially as it's hard getting a wheelchair into a lot of houses round here! I think the thing I have found saddest, is that at nursery there was a clique of mums whose kids have very complex health needs and they pretty much ignored us as on the surface we don't fit that group either.

Add that to me hating Facebook and online oversharing, we are very isolated.  But, rant aside, we are happy and just get on with it.  My daughter is lovely and doesn't seem lonely.  This community is great and I get a lot of support here.

Who do you care for? x