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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 485786" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>IC, although your ideas make good sense in theory, I'm not sure it's really true. And I go back to myself again and the fact that I was miserable my entire childhood. I had no technology but a television, which I really didn't watch too often, and an old-fashion RECORD PLAYER (remember them?) lol and a black dial telephone that didn't move away from the wall...lol...yes, I'm old. I was born the way I was. I remember thinking so as early as six when I felt like crying and asked myself, "I'm different. Why am I different?" This moment has stuck with me for life. I had an awareness that I was not the same as my peers, that they coped better than I did, that they had more friends, that they didn't like me, that I was somehow not "right." </p><p></p><p>Encyclopedias...remember them too? (lol) I would go through them to try to find out what mental disease I had because I was sure I was mentally ill. This was at thirteen. Also, I slept pretty well, but had nightmares a lot, but did not really feel tired most of the time. Although I had home cooked meals, I also had home cooked cake and cookies and I think most kids of my day were less aware of nutrition than we are now. </p><p></p><p>I think we have to be carfeful about blaming changes in society or getting too maudlin over "how it used to be for us." There were problems then, but we buried them. Seriously disordered kids were sent "away" and half the time neighbors never knew about them. I remember a little girl who lived across the street was mentally slow and she didn't even live at home. She was a family secret. I also remember my mom talking in a hush-hush tone about a friend of hers who had a child who had an epileptic daughter (THE HORROR!!!!!...sarcasm here). The friend used to visit our home with her son but never with her epilpetic daughter and I never knew what happened to her either.</p><p></p><p>One day 2011 will the somebody's "good old days" lolol.</p><p></p><p>Janet, back to you...I'm not a big AD fan for kids either. I've had terrible reactions to many AD's even as an adult. I just know that my childhood was so unhappy...I used to wish there was something somebody could do. I got tired of being told to "snap out of it!" I couldn't. I really don't have any good answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 485786, member: 1550"] IC, although your ideas make good sense in theory, I'm not sure it's really true. And I go back to myself again and the fact that I was miserable my entire childhood. I had no technology but a television, which I really didn't watch too often, and an old-fashion RECORD PLAYER (remember them?) lol and a black dial telephone that didn't move away from the wall...lol...yes, I'm old. I was born the way I was. I remember thinking so as early as six when I felt like crying and asked myself, "I'm different. Why am I different?" This moment has stuck with me for life. I had an awareness that I was not the same as my peers, that they coped better than I did, that they had more friends, that they didn't like me, that I was somehow not "right." Encyclopedias...remember them too? (lol) I would go through them to try to find out what mental disease I had because I was sure I was mentally ill. This was at thirteen. Also, I slept pretty well, but had nightmares a lot, but did not really feel tired most of the time. Although I had home cooked meals, I also had home cooked cake and cookies and I think most kids of my day were less aware of nutrition than we are now. I think we have to be carfeful about blaming changes in society or getting too maudlin over "how it used to be for us." There were problems then, but we buried them. Seriously disordered kids were sent "away" and half the time neighbors never knew about them. I remember a little girl who lived across the street was mentally slow and she didn't even live at home. She was a family secret. I also remember my mom talking in a hush-hush tone about a friend of hers who had a child who had an epileptic daughter (THE HORROR!!!!!...sarcasm here). The friend used to visit our home with her son but never with her epilpetic daughter and I never knew what happened to her either. One day 2011 will the somebody's "good old days" lolol. Janet, back to you...I'm not a big AD fan for kids either. I've had terrible reactions to many AD's even as an adult. I just know that my childhood was so unhappy...I used to wish there was something somebody could do. I got tired of being told to "snap out of it!" I couldn't. I really don't have any good answers. [/QUOTE]
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