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No face, no case.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD late in life, but I'm starting to remember a few things.
Some teachers did notice that I had issues with concentration and attention. I was tested, but let into gifted classes instead. My parents only focused on the "gifted label", and ignore the difficulty paying attention.
When I needed glasses, I was only taken 1 or 2 times, and when I forgot them, it was never brought up again. One parent mentioned that I probably didn't really need the glasses, and being "four eyes" would make me get bullied. I stopped wearing my glasses.
Was in speech pathology for about 3-4 years, but I never told them, they only learned later on when I got a speech pathology teacher that wanted us to work on homework WITH our parents. One parent didn't like us being told to make a motion like "we were kissing a boy" to say one sound, and went up to the school and pulled me out of speech pathology entirely.
I had been speaking with a lisp, and thankfully, that had been fixed for the most part before this.
When I went to a doctor's appointment, they mentioned that I might have scoliosis, but my parents never followed up.
We were told to go get braces for me...but one of them magically got lost on the way to the appointment.....
As an adult, I'm paying to fix these things now.
TLDR: Why do some parents refuse to believe their child has any problems? Or even act as if it's an affront to them?
Some teachers did notice that I had issues with concentration and attention. I was tested, but let into gifted classes instead. My parents only focused on the "gifted label", and ignore the difficulty paying attention.
When I needed glasses, I was only taken 1 or 2 times, and when I forgot them, it was never brought up again. One parent mentioned that I probably didn't really need the glasses, and being "four eyes" would make me get bullied. I stopped wearing my glasses.
Was in speech pathology for about 3-4 years, but I never told them, they only learned later on when I got a speech pathology teacher that wanted us to work on homework WITH our parents. One parent didn't like us being told to make a motion like "we were kissing a boy" to say one sound, and went up to the school and pulled me out of speech pathology entirely.
I had been speaking with a lisp, and thankfully, that had been fixed for the most part before this.
When I went to a doctor's appointment, they mentioned that I might have scoliosis, but my parents never followed up.
We were told to go get braces for me...but one of them magically got lost on the way to the appointment.....
As an adult, I'm paying to fix these things now.
TLDR: Why do some parents refuse to believe their child has any problems? Or even act as if it's an affront to them?