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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 411509" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Ummm.... I am not making things up about the society we live in! There is still unformity among the French. I'm afraid French society has not been transformed since you lived here.... It is also human nature to isolate and judge what is "different". We live in a village of 500 inhabitants and there are a total of 19 children in my son's school. People here, like villagers everywhere, love to discuss and gossip other their fellows... There would be no possibility of "hiding" a diagnosis. In any case, I would not seek to do so, as if I was ashamed of my son or who he is... My concern is getting an accurate diagnosis so that he is not unfairly saddled with a label he does not need to wear.</p><p>There is also the element to which the label creates the reality... We came to live in France when my son was 3 years old. He had previously been seen, a few times, by psychologists in Marrakesh for "hyperactivity". When he started at the village school I said nothing to the teachers or anyone about him being suspected of being hyperactive. I wanted to see how things evolved and unfolded for him without putting this "etiquette" on him... And, sure enough, he is just seen as a rather turbulent little boy, like other turbulent little boys the teacher has known... A medical doctor came to give a routine visit to all the children, interviewing all the four year olds and "testing" them for various skills to see if they are developing normally... She noticed that my son moves all the time and recommended we see a psychologist because of it... So the school now know about the possible hyperactivity though the teacher is very supportive of me and says she wouldn't trust the almost-diagnosis we have now been given of ADHD without seeking a second opinion. Which is what we are now doing...</p><p>There is something about the label of ADHD that seems suspect to me. It has been pointed out that hyperactivity used to be a separate diagnosis but was then subsumed into a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. What sense DOES this make if a child does not have an attention deficit, even if you then make a subtype of "predominantly hyperactive"?</p><p>I honestly would prefer for my son to be taken as he is, with excessive energy and constantly moving, withouth having to put the ADHD label on him. But it is others, and society, that tend in that direction. I obviously cannot resist it single-handedly...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 411509, member: 11227"] Ummm.... I am not making things up about the society we live in! There is still unformity among the French. I'm afraid French society has not been transformed since you lived here.... It is also human nature to isolate and judge what is "different". We live in a village of 500 inhabitants and there are a total of 19 children in my son's school. People here, like villagers everywhere, love to discuss and gossip other their fellows... There would be no possibility of "hiding" a diagnosis. In any case, I would not seek to do so, as if I was ashamed of my son or who he is... My concern is getting an accurate diagnosis so that he is not unfairly saddled with a label he does not need to wear. There is also the element to which the label creates the reality... We came to live in France when my son was 3 years old. He had previously been seen, a few times, by psychologists in Marrakesh for "hyperactivity". When he started at the village school I said nothing to the teachers or anyone about him being suspected of being hyperactive. I wanted to see how things evolved and unfolded for him without putting this "etiquette" on him... And, sure enough, he is just seen as a rather turbulent little boy, like other turbulent little boys the teacher has known... A medical doctor came to give a routine visit to all the children, interviewing all the four year olds and "testing" them for various skills to see if they are developing normally... She noticed that my son moves all the time and recommended we see a psychologist because of it... So the school now know about the possible hyperactivity though the teacher is very supportive of me and says she wouldn't trust the almost-diagnosis we have now been given of ADHD without seeking a second opinion. Which is what we are now doing... There is something about the label of ADHD that seems suspect to me. It has been pointed out that hyperactivity used to be a separate diagnosis but was then subsumed into a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. What sense DOES this make if a child does not have an attention deficit, even if you then make a subtype of "predominantly hyperactive"? I honestly would prefer for my son to be taken as he is, with excessive energy and constantly moving, withouth having to put the ADHD label on him. But it is others, and society, that tend in that direction. I obviously cannot resist it single-handedly... [/QUOTE]
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