diff --git a/class/HPGrowingTextView.m b/class/HPGrowingTextView.m
index 7537120..cb817b1 100644
--- a/class/HPGrowingTextView.m
+++ b/class/HPGrowingTextView.m
@@ -487,6 +487,10 @@ - (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range
 	//weird 1 pixel bug when clicking backspace when textView is empty
 	if(![textView hasText] && [atext isEqualToString:@""]) return NO;
 	
+	//Added by bretdabaker: sometimes we want to handle this ourselves
+    	if ([delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(growingTextView:shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementText:)])
+        	return [delegate growingTextView:self shouldChangeTextInRange:range replacementText:atext];
+	
 	if ([atext isEqualToString:@"\n"]) {
 		if ([delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(growingTextViewShouldReturn:)]) {
 			if (![delegate performSelector:@selector(growingTextViewShouldReturn:) withObject:self]) {