This got particularly fun in middle school, where the school said that you couldn’t simultaneously be learning disabled and gifted so they’d appreciate if I just picked one, and could I please stop trying to pick gifted.
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My school psychologist, on the basis of about an hour of conversation, became convinced that I had a witch’s brew of issues including ADHD, and that I would never achieve academic success without medication.
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Mom: “We have to fight this.” Me, an idealist: “Clearly we just have to show the report cards. I have never gotten other than an A in my life.” Mom, a teacher who knew how the game is played: “That is utterly irrelevant in the face of this piece of paper and so we will unmake it”
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(I inherited Dangerous Professionalism from both sides of the family.)
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Mothers are grossly under appreciated. Kudos to all those mothers who never gave up on their kids even when the whole world gave up.
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Unrelated, but a few years ago I wrote this guide for parents and teachers of kids with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder, for them to communicate in a way which can be seen as signal, and not noise, by non-neurotypicals. It's free:http://gumroad.com/l/twtamg
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My mother told me that when I was a child, people at school/church/random places would give her unsolicited advice that she should medicate me for ADD... Thanks for resisting and ignoring them, Mum!
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Seems to me that feedback means you are a genius. They did that to Albert Einstein as well.
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