Re: 99% sure I'm ADHD & now I have to circumnavigate getting diagnosed?? Cruel joke!

[Anonymous]

It’s so unfair that “pysychological” disorders are not fairly covered by medical insurance–isn’t the brain a body organ, after all?!?! We work a lot with the homeless and many of them have untreated disorders that make it difficult for them to funciton in society. A lot of them find society so difficult to deal with that they’d really rather stay in a tent by the river (this in a very rainy climate, too) than go to a shelter where they’re packed in a room like sardines–who can blame them for making that choice!? It makes total sense, in context.

I am waiting for a packet to come from the U of W. I don’t have much in the way of early childhood materials to work from–just my memory, mainly, and my mom’s–she’s 95, but has a sound mind and will help if she can. I DO have one junior choir picture where EVERY SINGLE KID IN THE PICTURE, EXCEPT ME, OF COURSE, is looking right at the camera. I’m looking at the boy next to me who muttered something funny just as the photog clicked the button. My parents had something to say about that, you can be sure!!!

One time, in first grade, the music teacher said all the kids needed to look right at her–so of course, I wanted to see if everyone was. Then I tattled that the girl next to me wasn’t watching the teacher. When the teacher replied that I must not have been either, I answered that I had one eye on her and one on the girl next to me, and then I wondered why the classroom teacher and the music teacher began to laugh.

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