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How much do you tell your difficult child about their issues?
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<blockquote data-quote="Running_for_the_shelter" data-source="post: 240599" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>I tell my son that he inherited my brain chemistry and that means he reacts differently than most people do. I tell him that it took years for me to work out ways to deal with that and that the folks he sees can help him figure it out faster. I tell him that some people have blonde hair, some have dark; some people have blue eyes, others have green; some people have brain chemistry like ours, others don't. I don't tell him all of these things at once because he really wouldn't listen that long. I don't bother with long words or theories; diagnoses change and some treatments are more effective than others. Why give him a label? It probably isn't going to stick, anyway. I'm more of a "we all got dealt different cards; it's how you play then that counts" kind of person. I come from a long line of people like me. It's my opinion that evolution would have weeded us out by now if there wasn't some powerful drivers keeping these genes in the gene pool. I like to think about that sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running_for_the_shelter, post: 240599, member: 2960"] I tell my son that he inherited my brain chemistry and that means he reacts differently than most people do. I tell him that it took years for me to work out ways to deal with that and that the folks he sees can help him figure it out faster. I tell him that some people have blonde hair, some have dark; some people have blue eyes, others have green; some people have brain chemistry like ours, others don't. I don't tell him all of these things at once because he really wouldn't listen that long. I don't bother with long words or theories; diagnoses change and some treatments are more effective than others. Why give him a label? It probably isn't going to stick, anyway. I'm more of a "we all got dealt different cards; it's how you play then that counts" kind of person. I come from a long line of people like me. It's my opinion that evolution would have weeded us out by now if there wasn't some powerful drivers keeping these genes in the gene pool. I like to think about that sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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