Taking My Own Special Needs Child, I’d Never Dared Ridden on the Buses with Him

Because of the case that’s happened a short while ago, from the Front Page Sections, a mother’s experience, translated…

I’d read up on the papers yesterday, the article, “The Child Cries on the Bus, the Pains are Felt by the Parents”, I’d started crying, as I read through it.

not my photograph…

I have a twenty-year-old daughter, but I’d never taken her on the busses, or the trains, because she’s a child with multiple disabilities, and would often get all worked up and start crying, and when she started, nothing can stop her, threats, or enticements, none of that would work. And, although the kindness in the government’s policies benefitted children like these, but, I still didn’t have the courage, to take her on the busses, because I’m afraid, the dirty looks from the other passengers, along with the verbal insults that may get thrown toward her, that was, an unknown, but heart wrenching kind of pain.

I remembered, that a few years back, a parent had once, taken her special needs child to McDonald’s and was discriminated against by the employees there, and after the media got a hold of the stories, the employee’s supervisor made a public apology, and promised to improve the dining environment to make it friendlier for those children with special needs, and ever since then, McDonald’s had become, especially kind toward children with special needs, and the customers who were dining there no longer looked on the special needs children weird anymore. And so, I do believe, that there is, kindness in the heart of the Taiwanese public, and, use some empathy, nobody would want her/his young to start crying aloud on the bus, and affect the other passengers, and so, the next time you hear a child cry on the public transportation systems, DO show some empathy, and some tolerance too.

show some EMPATHY, because the mother doesn’t WANT her child to disturb others, while sometimes, the kid just need to, W-A-I-L a bit!!!

Because you’re a mother of a special needs child, that is why, you felt that closeness to the story, and it’s correct, how the world lacks the empathy, the people may have enough empathy, but generally, the society doesn’t, and that’s something we need to change for the better, because no parents would want their kids to start screaming and crying, and affect others who are riding on the public transportation systems or in other public places…