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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 540964" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I think partly - I may be wrong and I am just speaking for myself - the desire for there not to be a label is connected to not wanting the child to be different or have special needs. A kind of resistance to reality, if you like. In the beginning of this process, because I think it is a process, I did not want J to have a label at all. Some of his behaviours were odd and troublesome but I still basically wanted to believe that he was "normal", that there was nothing wrong. Because, as the psychiatrist I saw the other day put it, he is "not totally deranged", I could get away with that, just about. But I've slowly come to accept that there is something going on with J that makes him behave the way he does some of the time and that it's probably better for him to have a medical label for that that might, you never know, attract people's understanding and/or compassion rather than judgement, rather than being labelled disruptive, naughty, badly brought up, etc.</p><p>At the same time, just throwing medications at the problem is not very heartening. Why do YOU think your son is disruptive at school?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 540964, member: 11227"] I think partly - I may be wrong and I am just speaking for myself - the desire for there not to be a label is connected to not wanting the child to be different or have special needs. A kind of resistance to reality, if you like. In the beginning of this process, because I think it is a process, I did not want J to have a label at all. Some of his behaviours were odd and troublesome but I still basically wanted to believe that he was "normal", that there was nothing wrong. Because, as the psychiatrist I saw the other day put it, he is "not totally deranged", I could get away with that, just about. But I've slowly come to accept that there is something going on with J that makes him behave the way he does some of the time and that it's probably better for him to have a medical label for that that might, you never know, attract people's understanding and/or compassion rather than judgement, rather than being labelled disruptive, naughty, badly brought up, etc. At the same time, just throwing medications at the problem is not very heartening. Why do YOU think your son is disruptive at school? [/QUOTE]
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