Okay so parents who refuse to give their children the medical attention they need, piss me off. When I was little I was ADHD and dyslexic (I'm still dyslexic.) I recieved some training to help me deal with the dyslexia outside of school, but my teachers weren't informed. My teachers were also not informed that I was ADHD and my parents didn't want to give me any meds... or even tell me that there was a medical reason why I acted the way I did. I felt like a bad kid because I knew that in order to be "good" I needed to focus, but I couldn't do it. I got into so much trouble from caretakers who thought I was just being a brat, and I'd try so hard and I found myself just assuming I was a bad kid. I obviously wasn't trying hard enough to be good, because that's what everyone told me. All of this would have been fixed (or at least helped) if a) people were informed, and b) I had been given the medication the doctors suggested. Grrr... Poor little unholy terror. He probably knows that the grownups don't like him, but he can't HELP it. Dammit parents, be responsible for your kids.
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Date: 2008-06-05 02:23 pm (UTC)