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What to do when parents don't believe diagnosis!!!?
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<blockquote data-quote="somerset" data-source="post: 522222" data-attributes="member: 13320"><p>I had the same problem, with my mother criticizing my parenting almost from the moment difficult child was born. The last few years, she would say,"She's not going to school? Send her to me - I'LL make her go!" Sure mom, and I know just how you'll do it. I'm really going to subject an already sensitive, depressed child to the constant criticism and cruel tongue-lashings I suffered as a child! She is so controlling, she couldn't stand the fact that she could not make me do it her way, and could'nt control the situation. I finally started saying "I don't want to talk about it". THen I finally, at the age of 50, accepted the fact that I was NEVER going to be good enough for her and I had to give up on ever achieving that goal. I actually felt like I mourned the loss for a few weeks. It did make me mad enough to finally tell her, when she began her broken-record comments on the situation, "I don't want to hear it anymore." I would just cut her off when she started in. Now that the new psychiatrist and the school are taking difficult child seriously, she is starting to realize difficult child's not just being a spoiled, lazy child. But it's still hard for her to stop criticizing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somerset, post: 522222, member: 13320"] I had the same problem, with my mother criticizing my parenting almost from the moment difficult child was born. The last few years, she would say,"She's not going to school? Send her to me - I'LL make her go!" Sure mom, and I know just how you'll do it. I'm really going to subject an already sensitive, depressed child to the constant criticism and cruel tongue-lashings I suffered as a child! She is so controlling, she couldn't stand the fact that she could not make me do it her way, and could'nt control the situation. I finally started saying "I don't want to talk about it". THen I finally, at the age of 50, accepted the fact that I was NEVER going to be good enough for her and I had to give up on ever achieving that goal. I actually felt like I mourned the loss for a few weeks. It did make me mad enough to finally tell her, when she began her broken-record comments on the situation, "I don't want to hear it anymore." I would just cut her off when she started in. Now that the new psychiatrist and the school are taking difficult child seriously, she is starting to realize difficult child's not just being a spoiled, lazy child. But it's still hard for her to stop criticizing. [/QUOTE]
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