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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 439027" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>Dear Malika,</p><p>Your posts always bring me back to my own experiences with my son. ADHD,Autism any mental problem, be it neurological or not was not and I believe<strong> is not </strong>accepted here either. The critism and the "running" away of friends or potential friends hurts like crazy. I still get raw thinking of it. I spend time every year in my school trying to help fellow teachers develop compassion, understanding and skills to better serve these kids and their families. We are just not there. For some it may be better. I live here in Utah amongst a most judgemental, linear majority. Children are expected to spend 3 hours each Sunday at church-imagine the eyes rolling and ill advised advise being throw at me weekly! (Needless to say, I'm a less active member of this majority). I had to remind myself that there was no ill will (maybe I was fooling myself) and my job was to educate. So each time I was given unsoliceted advise, or critised (including family), I <strong>tore off </strong>on a speech about ADHD and the methods I was using and the names of the experts and blah,blah,blah. People started to leave me alone-sure they thought I was a sandwich short of a picnic as well. In the end I still hurt and I hurt when I hear that you are going through this in 2011 in a world far better informed. Everyone knows what color hat the Queen wore to the wedding, but nobody knows that the intellectual and spiritual world has moved on.</p><p></p><p>I hope and pray for you to have one wonderful friend (as I do) who understands and loves you both no matter what. I hope that this friend will need you too, as this is the stuff of strong bonds.I hope that you will be able to pursue the countryside with your little guy and see the joy the two of you have because you love each other and the village has a lot of sick goats (thank you Star) for the old men! Hugs!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 439027, member: 11001"] Dear Malika, Your posts always bring me back to my own experiences with my son. ADHD,Autism any mental problem, be it neurological or not was not and I believe[B] is not [/B]accepted here either. The critism and the "running" away of friends or potential friends hurts like crazy. I still get raw thinking of it. I spend time every year in my school trying to help fellow teachers develop compassion, understanding and skills to better serve these kids and their families. We are just not there. For some it may be better. I live here in Utah amongst a most judgemental, linear majority. Children are expected to spend 3 hours each Sunday at church-imagine the eyes rolling and ill advised advise being throw at me weekly! (Needless to say, I'm a less active member of this majority). I had to remind myself that there was no ill will (maybe I was fooling myself) and my job was to educate. So each time I was given unsoliceted advise, or critised (including family), I [B]tore off [/B]on a speech about ADHD and the methods I was using and the names of the experts and blah,blah,blah. People started to leave me alone-sure they thought I was a sandwich short of a picnic as well. In the end I still hurt and I hurt when I hear that you are going through this in 2011 in a world far better informed. Everyone knows what color hat the Queen wore to the wedding, but nobody knows that the intellectual and spiritual world has moved on. I hope and pray for you to have one wonderful friend (as I do) who understands and loves you both no matter what. I hope that this friend will need you too, as this is the stuff of strong bonds.I hope that you will be able to pursue the countryside with your little guy and see the joy the two of you have because you love each other and the village has a lot of sick goats (thank you Star) for the old men! Hugs! [/QUOTE]
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