Re: Extended Family Members

[Anonymous]

That’s a hard one. If I’m reading what you’re saying correctly the daughter that is doing the criticising has adhd and she is critical because she has overcome her disabilities and made a success of her life? Does she know that there are different adhd subtypes and some people suffer more severe symptoms than others? I think I’d try to head in that direction – try to find more information about the differences in the way people with adhd are effected.

You’re daughter with adhd must have worked really hard to make a success of her life. But not everyone can do this. It must be so hard for her nephew to feel good about himself if he sees that adhd hasn’t (on the surface) affected his aunt. He must feel demoralised and like an even bigger failure. Sounds like your older daughter is either looking for recognition for her success, wanting a reason to criticise her sibling for bad parenting i.e not making your grandson ‘suffer the consequences’, or she’s looking for an argument because she has ADHD and that’s what some of us like to do – create drama *sigh*

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