Comments on: Leta

By: Lynn P.

Lynn P. — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:13:17 +0000

My son is almost 6. He is developmentally delayed and the most beautiful, kind and happy child I know. I wouldn’t have him any other way. Leta is your baby, beautiful, kind and happy (except in the early morning, I’ve heard) you would have her no other way. Fuck the haters!!

By: lauren

lauren — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:21:28 +0000

People who judge others without knowledge are stupidly deluded, self-focused, closed minded prigs. Really…what makes them think they are so muckin fuch?

By: Ned Batchelder

Ned Batchelder — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:23:40 +0000

No one knows your child like you do, *no one*. Watch them, love them, know them. Most advice givers mean well, but they just can’t do for your child what you can. Unfortunately, that includes many doctors and professionals. Take from them what you can, and move on when you must.

By: gardenia

gardenia — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:19:40 +0000

I’m curious what percent of e-mails you get are from idiots. Your family has a such huge fan base who is taken with and drawn into the stories of the Armstrong household. You guys are attractive, talanted, interesting and real. I think any negative responses are about jealousy of those things. And of how many people think you’re cool

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:19:17 +0000

I don’t have much to say, just:
1. you’re way more polite than I would be
2. I’m 20 and I still do monkey toes.

By: Cora's mommy

Cora's mommy — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:59:22 +0000

Jon, you are such a good husband and Daddy. It’s heartwarming to see your “protective instincts” kick in. I read both yours and Heather’s site. I don’t know why someone would deliberately say things about something that they know is sensitive. I have a girl almost the same age as Leta, Cora was born on Valentines Day. People can say anything about me, or my husband and live…but if they say anything even remotely negative to or about my daughter, the mother lion in me will come out and my little 125 pound body will tear them to shreds! I have been reading you guys for about a year now and I feel like I know you and it makes me sick that someone has made Heather upset. Like you said, especially with the year you all have had. You guys are super cool, I love reading you!
Sara

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:19:19 +0000

Leta is a beautiful girl with a couple of concerned, grounded parents. Don’t sweat the asshats of the interweb.

By: no name yet

no name yet — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:30:49 +0000

everyone has said all of the things that i could say that are supportive in an intelligent and informative way, so i’m going to instead go with my gut emotional reaction to the discovery that hoards of people are sending you guys email suggesting, in a condescending way, that leta is autistic and that you guys are neglecting her in some way:

FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCKS! FUCK!

k, thanks.

By: AyEnDeeAreEeAyAitch

AyEnDeeAreEeAyAitch — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:32:04 +0000

Man, I feel bad you you guys get shit like that. Whatever happened to if you don’t have anything good to say don’t say anything at all? fuckers. Sorry, but I hate it when people just rag and rag and having nothing good to say. I think the internet forgets that there are actual human beings on the other end of the keyboard.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:14:34 +0000

I’m scared of Autism. I have no logical reason to be so really, it’s just that I’ve read here & there that there is potentially an environmental cause to it and 3 boys on my street alone have recently been diagnosed with Autism.

I watched my now 5 yr old very carefully indeed. I delayed his MMR vaccine past that period where these things get diagnosed and there might be a link but probably isnt’……”just in case”. I now have a 6 month old baby and I’m terrified that he may be at risk so I watch him extremely carefully too.

Anyway, I blather. What I am astounded by is that anyone reading this or Dooce.com could come to the conclusion from what Heather and yourself have written, that Leta shows symptoms of Autism.

How appallingly ignorant of them to presume intimate knowledge of your child based on the small amount they see written here. How absurd to make a medical diagnosis based upon it.

BTW, My 5 yr old showed absolutely no sign of walking or crawling in his early months… was just totally uninterested in it. He finally crawled around 13 months, and walked at 18 months. I wasn’t worried at all, hisi development – while slow – was in line with several of his little friends at the time and also with his dad’s. My now 6 month old couldn’t be less interested in moving around while some of his peers are crawling already he hasn’t even rolled over yet. I’m not stressing Leta is 11 months old, give it another 9 or 10 months before you worry too much!