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Post by mizmog on Sept 7, 2011 9:29:35 GMT
Talking about ur parents/grandparents/siblings, what is ur relationship like? How did/do they react or support u? Really interested to know others experience?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 11:26:28 GMT
no one apart from my mum and boyfriend know. my mum denies it i think mostly, and my boyfriend is lovely but he doesn't fully get it either. i haven't explained it much though so that's why.
i'm not medicated and have chosen to stay that way at the moment, so as far as my mum's concerned, i don't have anything.
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Post by kakema on Sept 7, 2011 13:04:14 GMT
I'm sure we had quite a bit of posting on this topic earlier in the year. Seemed to come out mostly that people didn't feel particularly well supported but as ever, there was a range of experience.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 14:11:53 GMT
I think older people sometimes are judgemental towards this diagnosis and treatment because ADHD wasn't invented when they were young and on one hand they might be worried that this diagnosis means a bad thing and will make their or their family's life worse and on the other hand they might actually be afraid if the treatment will work and they will find that their life might have been different, or they are just afraid of many new things because they don't know about them enough.
Nobody in my family accepts that they have ADHD or wants to seek treatment. Now that I have a diagnosis one of my parents accepts it (only after I moved far away) but some people are just not used to think in terms of their weaknesses and I think usually the problem with parents is that until you're living with them or close, they just can't see you as independent person. Even if you earn your own money and do everything yourself, still they might see you as 10 years old. That's pretty sick but I think in a family with ADHD it's not uncommon. It's just ADHD symptoms of hyperfocusing and all that stuff.
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Post by andy12345 on Sept 8, 2011 16:52:16 GMT
nothing to say here.......
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