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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 506389"><p>Buddy, it was REALLY hurtful. Last spring difficult child was placed on the same baseball team as this other kid and I was out of my mind. My anxiety about this mother was through the roof. Want to know the funny thing? The two boys were fine together. It was a typical kids spat. They're mad at each other today, they're friends tomorrow. If the mother would have just let the kids work it out, everything would have been fine.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I truly think that's because mental illness is something that can not be seen. You can go to a doctor and have testing done and be told your child has cancer, diabetes, pneumonia, etc. Most of our kids look perfectly "normal" (whatever that is). They do not look ill. They do not look like a child with cancer would look. Because our kids looks all right, people assume that they are all right. </p><p></p><p>But mental illness is so subjective. We've all seen it here. One doctor says one thing. Another doctor says another. This specialist agrees with me. The other specialist thinks that I'm completely off my rocker. </p><p></p><p>People who have never dealt with mental illness, be it with an adult or a child, have no clue what it's like to have to live with someone suffering from it. They just assume it's the person's fault that they are sad and miserable, or that it's the parents' fault that their child can not behave. Until they walk a mile in our shoes they have no right saying anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 506389"] Buddy, it was REALLY hurtful. Last spring difficult child was placed on the same baseball team as this other kid and I was out of my mind. My anxiety about this mother was through the roof. Want to know the funny thing? The two boys were fine together. It was a typical kids spat. They're mad at each other today, they're friends tomorrow. If the mother would have just let the kids work it out, everything would have been fine. I truly think that's because mental illness is something that can not be seen. You can go to a doctor and have testing done and be told your child has cancer, diabetes, pneumonia, etc. Most of our kids look perfectly "normal" (whatever that is). They do not look ill. They do not look like a child with cancer would look. Because our kids looks all right, people assume that they are all right. But mental illness is so subjective. We've all seen it here. One doctor says one thing. Another doctor says another. This specialist agrees with me. The other specialist thinks that I'm completely off my rocker. People who have never dealt with mental illness, be it with an adult or a child, have no clue what it's like to have to live with someone suffering from it. They just assume it's the person's fault that they are sad and miserable, or that it's the parents' fault that their child can not behave. Until they walk a mile in our shoes they have no right saying anything. [/QUOTE]
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