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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 540965" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>((hugs)) JoAnn and welcome to the board.</p><p></p><p>Our children are not their labels, any more than a diabetic is just a diabetic or an epileptic is just an epileptic. And you have to think of it in those terms because it IS the same thing. All a diagnosis does is condense a group of general symptoms ect into one or a couple of words, it is not that person as a whole.</p><p></p><p>Now I'm not going to say you're not going to have to deal with ignorance and stereotyping because that would be a lie. I'm pretty sure we've all dealt with it on one level or another. But you can help educate the ignorant while teaching your son (as you've discovered yourself) that he is much more than any mere diagnosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 540965, member: 84"] ((hugs)) JoAnn and welcome to the board. Our children are not their labels, any more than a diabetic is just a diabetic or an epileptic is just an epileptic. And you have to think of it in those terms because it IS the same thing. All a diagnosis does is condense a group of general symptoms ect into one or a couple of words, it is not that person as a whole. Now I'm not going to say you're not going to have to deal with ignorance and stereotyping because that would be a lie. I'm pretty sure we've all dealt with it on one level or another. But you can help educate the ignorant while teaching your son (as you've discovered yourself) that he is much more than any mere diagnosis. [/QUOTE]
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