Re: Should I love my mother…or hate her?

[Anonymous]

I guess I must be very fortunate. I have the most open-minded mother there is. I called her up a couple of weeks ago and I told her all about my ADD, what I learned about it and how it affected my life, and she was thrilled! And a couple of days ago she watched the Totally ADD show on PBS, and she had to call me and discuss it with me. She told me that it brought back a lot of memories of when I was a child, and how ADD affected me back then. We talked until the battery on the cordless phone died!

I’m lucky to have a mother like her. She’s 79, in good health except for a couple of bum knees, loves to stay active and involved. She was brought up in a family that valued learning and knowledge over ignorance and fear, traits I’ve tried to pass on to my own children. Deucedog, don’t feel too badly about your mother. She was simply a product of her times, like we all are. Just tell yourself how fortunate we are to be living in much more enlightened times, where many of the stigmas and fears that existed back then no longer have any power over us.

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