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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 605628" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, confusing as it all is, we are now living in Morocco not the UK and to be honest, I don't want further testing for him. I do not want more labels. Here is why... in the UK, where we spent most of the summer holiday, he went to an adventure playground most days - a facility provided by the local council in a poor part of the town where there is a high level of special needs kids. I told them J had ADHD from the beginning and this was also told to the other kids in various situations. Well, yesterday when he was playing in a playground here in Marrakesh, he got quickly into a nasty confrontation with some kids who go to the American school here and so spoke English... Something about they wouldn't let him go past on some of the play equipment and he began screaming at them and swearing (cursing), using the F word... He started shrieking to me "Mummy, they don't know I'm HYPERACTIVE and that I've GOT PROBLEMS!!" They must have been saying this at the playground in the UK and... I've never heard him say anything like this. He is using it as a crutch and an excuse and it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy if it continued.</p><p>I went over to make peace with the girls and he ended up playing with them in friendly, co-operative fashion so that was something at least. I also told him it was nonsense that he couldn't speak to people politely because he has ADHD... and to be frank, like I say, I don't want to use that label to him at all for the moment. Let alone add others!</p><p>He is really very unsettled, spinning around between three cultures and languages. We need to stay put and to see how things develop in the context of stability, as you say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 605628, member: 11227"] Well, confusing as it all is, we are now living in Morocco not the UK and to be honest, I don't want further testing for him. I do not want more labels. Here is why... in the UK, where we spent most of the summer holiday, he went to an adventure playground most days - a facility provided by the local council in a poor part of the town where there is a high level of special needs kids. I told them J had ADHD from the beginning and this was also told to the other kids in various situations. Well, yesterday when he was playing in a playground here in Marrakesh, he got quickly into a nasty confrontation with some kids who go to the American school here and so spoke English... Something about they wouldn't let him go past on some of the play equipment and he began screaming at them and swearing (cursing), using the F word... He started shrieking to me "Mummy, they don't know I'm HYPERACTIVE and that I've GOT PROBLEMS!!" They must have been saying this at the playground in the UK and... I've never heard him say anything like this. He is using it as a crutch and an excuse and it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy if it continued. I went over to make peace with the girls and he ended up playing with them in friendly, co-operative fashion so that was something at least. I also told him it was nonsense that he couldn't speak to people politely because he has ADHD... and to be frank, like I say, I don't want to use that label to him at all for the moment. Let alone add others! He is really very unsettled, spinning around between three cultures and languages. We need to stay put and to see how things develop in the context of stability, as you say. [/QUOTE]
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