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My friends and their "perfect children" are making me jealous!
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<blockquote data-quote="MichelleNM1969" data-source="post: 714195" data-attributes="member: 22013"><p>Oh boy do I know how you feel. Now that it's graduation time I'm so I overwhelmed with all my friends kids winning awards and graduating with honours when my son is just getting by. He just graduation from grade 8 and I'm proud of how far he's come. He has ADHD and has always had issues with behaviour. I enjoyed his grad and knew he wouldn't win and awards but part of me hoped he's get acknowledgment for home much he's come. His grade 7 teacher came over and gave me a hug and said how great she thought he was doing. That made me feel good. The little wins right? Well my friend who has a daughter the same age also graduated that night and she won a best athlete award and graduated with honours and of course it's all over the Internet. I didn't sleep well that night. I had the tightest pain in my chest (I have generalized anxiety disorder and depression). On my way to work then next morning I had an anxiety attack. I felt so bad that I felt jealous. Of course I wouldn't change my son for anything but I couldn't help but feel how much easier it would be to have a normal child. Deep down I know that no family is perfect and I know that it's easy just to put the "good" stuff on social media and we all have skeetons but I can't think through that when I'm in the middle of a breakdown. So know that you're not alone. We've all been there. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MichelleNM1969, post: 714195, member: 22013"] Oh boy do I know how you feel. Now that it's graduation time I'm so I overwhelmed with all my friends kids winning awards and graduating with honours when my son is just getting by. He just graduation from grade 8 and I'm proud of how far he's come. He has ADHD and has always had issues with behaviour. I enjoyed his grad and knew he wouldn't win and awards but part of me hoped he's get acknowledgment for home much he's come. His grade 7 teacher came over and gave me a hug and said how great she thought he was doing. That made me feel good. The little wins right? Well my friend who has a daughter the same age also graduated that night and she won a best athlete award and graduated with honours and of course it's all over the Internet. I didn't sleep well that night. I had the tightest pain in my chest (I have generalized anxiety disorder and depression). On my way to work then next morning I had an anxiety attack. I felt so bad that I felt jealous. Of course I wouldn't change my son for anything but I couldn't help but feel how much easier it would be to have a normal child. Deep down I know that no family is perfect and I know that it's easy just to put the "good" stuff on social media and we all have skeetons but I can't think through that when I'm in the middle of a breakdown. So know that you're not alone. We've all been there. ❤️❤️❤️ [/QUOTE]
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