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smoke-without-fire: adventureskies: My mother is a first grade teacher, she always assumes that any child who acts different has an attention disorder. She is part of the reason 100’s of young children in our community have been drugged because of this over diagnosed condition. I have always told her that it is wrong to drug these kids to make them conform but my opinion has never mattered to her. I have been diagnosed with an attention disorder which i know i don’t actually have. Here is my plea, when our generation becomes parents don’t let teachers or anybody else besides a certified doctor tell your child there is something wrong with them. Let our kids be kids, not mindless drones.   I whole-heartily agree. I was in a similar scenario as a child. I didn’t talk until I was four years old. I enjoyed sorting things and playing by myself and I had a few strange quirks when I was young. People on my block automatically assumed I had autism. My parents didn’t think so but still got me checked. The doctor said nothing was wrong with me. Throughout elementary school I continued to be pretty anti-social, I wanted almost nothing to do with other kids. In fact, I remember greatly disliking most people I came into contact with. I remember loving my teachers and perhaps liking just 4 classmates. I had no interest in play dates with anyone. I mean, I was still nice to people, I barely talked though. I was sent to social skills for about five years. Apparently, someone had the audacity to tell my mom that she had a “sped” for a child and that I would be in all special ed classes. Which there is nothing wrong with but the fact that the slang was used does irk me a bit. Anyways, I was anti-social until I was about 13 when I met my first best friend. She was the same way as me, actually. Anti-social. We became friends over the years and I became gradually more sociable. I became outgoing and what not. As for being a “sped”, nope. I was not in those classes. And so what if I was? It doesn’t make you any less or greater of a person.  Oh and people told my parents my older sister she had ADHD, my parents got her tested multiple times and she did not. Two examples. I feel like people just look for problems that can be solved by medications or other people so they don’t have to deal with it. It gives them an easy way out, a comfort in explaining things in one word. Anyways, point being just because I was an oddball as a kid people automatically assumed I had an issue and they all ended up being wrong. Parents shouldn’t believe what those people tell them, they are NOT doctors, they do NOT have degrees in such topics. Why are these children being medicated and put in special classes when they don’t even need it? Just so unnecessary and parents should go to specialists before ever resorting to drugs. 
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adventureskies:

My mother is a first grade teacher, she always assumes that any child who acts different has an attention disorder. She is part of the reason 100’s of young children in our community have been drugged because of this over diagnosed condition. I have always told her that it is wrong to drug these kids to make them conform but my opinion has never mattered to her.

I have been diagnosed with an attention disorder which i know i don’t actually have. Here is my plea, when our generation becomes parents don’t let teachers or anybody else besides a certified doctor tell your child there is something wrong with them. Let our kids be kids, not mindless drones. 

 I whole-heartily agree. I was in a similar scenario as a child. I didn’t talk until I was four years old. I enjoyed sorting things and playing by myself and I had a few strange quirks when I was young. People on my block automatically assumed I had autism. My parents didn’t think so but still got me checked. The doctor said nothing was wrong with me. Throughout elementary school I continued to be pretty anti-social, I wanted almost nothing to do with other kids. In fact, I remember greatly disliking most people I came into contact with. I remember loving my teachers and perhaps liking just 4 classmates. I had no interest in play dates with anyone. I mean, I was still nice to people, I barely talked though. I was sent to social skills for about five years. Apparently, someone had the audacity to tell my mom that she had a “sped” for a child and that I would be in all special ed classes. Which there is nothing wrong with but the fact that the slang was used does irk me a bit. Anyways, I was anti-social until I was about 13 when I met my first best friend. She was the same way as me, actually. Anti-social. We became friends over the years and I became gradually more sociable. I became outgoing and what not. As for being a “sped”, nope. I was not in those classes. And so what if I was? It doesn’t make you any less or greater of a person. 

Oh and people told my parents my older sister she had ADHD, my parents got her tested multiple times and she did not. Two examples.

I feel like people just look for problems that can be solved by medications or other people so they don’t have to deal with it. It gives them an easy way out, a comfort in explaining things in one word.

Anyways, point being just because I was an oddball as a kid people automatically assumed I had an issue and they all ended up being wrong. Parents shouldn’t believe what those people tell them, they are NOT doctors, they do NOT have degrees in such topics. Why are these children being medicated and put in special classes when they don’t even need it? Just so unnecessary and parents should go to specialists before ever resorting to drugs. 

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