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do you talk to your difficult child about their diagnosis or symptoms?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 462759" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Yes - with caution.</p><p>Things that are easier for people in general to comprehend, we tend to give more details to the kid also - learning disabilities, auditory issues, motor skills... It provides a label that they can use to advocate for themselves, even as they learn to work around the issue.</p><p>We were less open about mental health labels - partly because in our case we knew they would not be long-term - they were all secondary, generated by other problems not being dealt with. So - not the same case as yours.</p><p> </p><p>But I do know that, sharing the dxes with the kids helped them immensely. Sometimes, just knowing there was a label - the validation of their own gut feel that "something isn't working right" - had a big impact.</p><p></p><p>And yes - its not an excuse. Again, its a fine line... some things are unreasonable enough that extra accommodations are warranted, other things not so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 462759, member: 11791"] Yes - with caution. Things that are easier for people in general to comprehend, we tend to give more details to the kid also - learning disabilities, auditory issues, motor skills... It provides a label that they can use to advocate for themselves, even as they learn to work around the issue. We were less open about mental health labels - partly because in our case we knew they would not be long-term - they were all secondary, generated by other problems not being dealt with. So - not the same case as yours. But I do know that, sharing the dxes with the kids helped them immensely. Sometimes, just knowing there was a label - the validation of their own gut feel that "something isn't working right" - had a big impact. And yes - its not an excuse. Again, its a fine line... some things are unreasonable enough that extra accommodations are warranted, other things not so much. [/QUOTE]
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