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HaoZi
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Yep, insurance companies love labels. Everything neatly labeled and filed, preferably a label that doesn't cost them too much even over a label that suits the person better.
The one thing I've seen in my experience is that the people sticking the ODD label on my kid - every one of them - not one of them speaks English as a first language. All of them are from places where societal expectations of children are to sit down, shut up, and blindly obey their elders. Kids are not to question or disobey even when they know better. This is why I'm really hoping the doctor we're consulting with Monday will be willing to do the extra testing I've been requesting for quite a while now - no trace of accent, definitely grew up in my country, where kids do question, are expected to disobey here and there, etc., without being labeled as "defiant" for things that kids do naturally to some degree as they test boundaries and rules, grow, and learn.
I realize that this is just my experience with these docs, but man, is it ever hard to find any doctor around here that's actually from the U.S. that takes her insurance!
The one thing I've seen in my experience is that the people sticking the ODD label on my kid - every one of them - not one of them speaks English as a first language. All of them are from places where societal expectations of children are to sit down, shut up, and blindly obey their elders. Kids are not to question or disobey even when they know better. This is why I'm really hoping the doctor we're consulting with Monday will be willing to do the extra testing I've been requesting for quite a while now - no trace of accent, definitely grew up in my country, where kids do question, are expected to disobey here and there, etc., without being labeled as "defiant" for things that kids do naturally to some degree as they test boundaries and rules, grow, and learn.
I realize that this is just my experience with these docs, but man, is it ever hard to find any doctor around here that's actually from the U.S. that takes her insurance!