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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 431744" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, I don't think I want to fight about it, SRL <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I do not have the sense that there is one right path that everyone has to follow and so if this seems to be what I am saying, I cannot have expressed myself clearly enough. I make the point made by the author of "The Explosive Child" - diagnoses do not really tell us anything useful; identifying lacking skills does. Like all of us here, I want my son to be seen first and foremost as a human being in his complex round rather than a simple label. I have more or less accepted the label of ADHD for him, as he seems to fit the description of it rather undeniably, and do use it myself when that seems useful. He clearly has problems and difficulties in some areas that arise because of, if what we are told is correct, some neuro-biological differences to the norm. But I find it more useful myself to concentrate on these problems and difficulties in themselves rather than fixating on the ADHD thing. I don't really think there's any great area of contention between us. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 431744, member: 11227"] Well, I don't think I want to fight about it, SRL :-) I do not have the sense that there is one right path that everyone has to follow and so if this seems to be what I am saying, I cannot have expressed myself clearly enough. I make the point made by the author of "The Explosive Child" - diagnoses do not really tell us anything useful; identifying lacking skills does. Like all of us here, I want my son to be seen first and foremost as a human being in his complex round rather than a simple label. I have more or less accepted the label of ADHD for him, as he seems to fit the description of it rather undeniably, and do use it myself when that seems useful. He clearly has problems and difficulties in some areas that arise because of, if what we are told is correct, some neuro-biological differences to the norm. But I find it more useful myself to concentrate on these problems and difficulties in themselves rather than fixating on the ADHD thing. I don't really think there's any great area of contention between us. :-) [/QUOTE]
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