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Would You Eradicate ADHD?
If it was possible to take away yours or your child's ADHD, would you do it, or do you value the positive's enough to work with it and through it?
GOOD QUESTION!!! A cure would be good. Happy to have an adhd child... I don't think so. I keep wondering what made me so special to take on this amazing challenge??? It is a bitter sweet and a double whammy... on one hand you are doing everything you can to help your child (over and over and over and over again). Your heart breaks as you see your child continually try to fit in or be successful or in control and they just can't no matter how many times you go over, and over and over the situation. They are outcasted because they are different. Making friends is hard and keeping them is even harder (especially at the tender age of 6 -my son). My sons teacher is excellent, but I worry tremendously for next year (2nd grade) and the year after that and so on. I worry about how he is handling himself when I can't be there to help him. I worry about what will set him off and he will lose his temper and hurt someone (not even realizing he shouldn't have done it). All parents worry about their children and want what is best we work twice as hard. On the other hand what about us as parents of adhd children. Our anger and frustration and resentment and our guilt when our patience is no longer there (after repeating something for the unteenth time). Or being called up to school to be told what your child did that day or refereeing playdates constantly 'cause it has to be your childs way or no way yet all they want to do is have a friend over. I love my son more then life and would do anything for him, but I get so frustrated because I sometimes just feel like I can't take it another day. I AM ANGRY AT ADHD NOT MY CHILD. Then I feel guily because I look at someone with bigger problems and then say THANK GOD IT IS ONLY ADHD!!!
I to would like it to be gone. As someone with disability I could not even try to tell you what I would be like if I never had them. Yes I would lose some of the nice things I have in my personality for they would have never developed. But I sit here and wonder what other nice things would have developed in me If the disability would have never been. There is definately a trade you give. And it hurts that its not your choice. I've been told I have ADHD. I've been told my whole life I never shut up. (Those words all the time) And when my son goes on and on I finaly felt what the world feels around me. I have things about me I am happy for having and feel I have them because of the disabilities but I would give then up very easy with out a second thought if I could be free of a disability.
Yes I would want it gone, I think the bad out ways the good. I feel so sad for these kids who try so hard and get hardly no where. My biggest wish is to educate every teacher and every person that deals with kids what adhd is and how to handle them with dignity.
I would want it gone. Although I know children diagnosed are creative and such, the battles that go on inside them, which lead to other conditions is torturous to them and there families. I think they struggle through life and if there were a cure my daughter and I would be first in line. Thanks for the question.
My opinion is kind of mixed. I know that some of my son's best & funniest traits stem from the ADHD - his creativity, unbounding energy, his wild laughter. However, his worst traits - those that keep him from making and keeping friends, those that keep him from succeeding in school, those that upset him so much b/c he can't stop the bad behaviors - are what concerns me more.
I know that we, as parents, must work 100 times harder to teach our children how do manage in the real world. However, I think that things would be so much happier, less stressful, without the ADHD. To be honest, the frustration that I feel & that my son has affected me in such a way that I know that I am not the parent I want to be.
Yes, that is my own problem that I have to work through. However, if things were "normal", and I wasn't so frustrated all the time, running around all the time, finding another school all the time, I think that my son could succeed beyond all boundaries. There are so many opportunities that both my son & I have missed b/c of the ADHD.
But, I will say this. The ADHD has made me proud to work harder (well, that is when I am feeling optimistic). I **will** make it through this;
my son **will** make it through this. He will be a better person b/c he will have fought that much harder for what he attains. And I know at the end of the day that, when challenged beyond my limits, I am still a good mom. Does that make sense??
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