Yeah, and back in those days, loads of kids were terribly sexually and physically abused and nobody even believed them. So sure, just go back to those days, “the world will right itself.”
The problem isn’t in the diagnosis of a child’s medical condition, it’s the treatment of the condition. By recognising the condition, one can adjust the training of the child to emphasize the child’s strengths and help overcome their weaknesses. This I know from myself and my daughter. Both of us had an early diagnosis of ADD. However, after further examination, the proper diagnosis were Asperger’s for me and high functioning autism for my daughter. Both of us have delays in social development, but both of us show, when properly motivated, high academic ability.For me, there were no programs in public school for my misdiagnosed condition. For my daughter, the public school did not want to recognise her diagnosis and filed her in a "special needs’ class where she was not being properly challenged or educated. After my daughter was assigned in progressively worse schools by the public school system, we finally started to home school her and she is doing better and better each year.
My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in third grade. The doctor put her on RItalin and she took her first dose in the pharmacy. Before I could get her back to school she looked at me with wide eyes and said, “Mom, I can concentrate. Can other people think like this all the time?”
I told her yes and then she asked the question that breaks my heart: “Why did you wait so long to give me the medicine I needed?”
If they need it, then they NEED it. It doesn’t turn them into zombies, it allows them to put the breaks on their random thoughts so they can stay focused and not obey every impulse that pops into their heads.
hildigunnurr Premium Member over 10 years ago
oh boy…
lbatik over 10 years ago
Yeah, and back in those days, loads of kids were terribly sexually and physically abused and nobody even believed them. So sure, just go back to those days, “the world will right itself.”
(^sarcasm^)
kaecispopX over 10 years ago
The problem isn’t in the diagnosis of a child’s medical condition, it’s the treatment of the condition. By recognising the condition, one can adjust the training of the child to emphasize the child’s strengths and help overcome their weaknesses. This I know from myself and my daughter. Both of us had an early diagnosis of ADD. However, after further examination, the proper diagnosis were Asperger’s for me and high functioning autism for my daughter. Both of us have delays in social development, but both of us show, when properly motivated, high academic ability.For me, there were no programs in public school for my misdiagnosed condition. For my daughter, the public school did not want to recognise her diagnosis and filed her in a "special needs’ class where she was not being properly challenged or educated. After my daughter was assigned in progressively worse schools by the public school system, we finally started to home school her and she is doing better and better each year.
Font Lady Premium Member over 10 years ago
My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in third grade. The doctor put her on RItalin and she took her first dose in the pharmacy. Before I could get her back to school she looked at me with wide eyes and said, “Mom, I can concentrate. Can other people think like this all the time?”
I told her yes and then she asked the question that breaks my heart: “Why did you wait so long to give me the medicine I needed?”
If they need it, then they NEED it. It doesn’t turn them into zombies, it allows them to put the breaks on their random thoughts so they can stay focused and not obey every impulse that pops into their heads.
hcrum over 10 years ago
Try living with an ODD child, and you won’t find it so funny.