My mother is a second grade teacher with a particular interest in learning disabilities and emotional/psychological disabilities. She was in college when I was born. She always has been and still is sure that I have something wrong with me. In her quest to find what the problem with me is, I've been taken to a billion different specialists of various sorts.
To be honest, a couple things are neat to know. I have a wildly fluctuating IQ (probably do to my wildly fluctuating attention span and changing attitude about the whole thing). Apparently sometimes I'm literally a genius. At other times I'm literally retarded.
But really, most of it is a croc. I remember getting super-angry at the age of 16 because a neurologist more or less told my mother, in front of me, that I had severe mental deficiencies and will never lead a normal life because I walked on my toes. (I don't walk on the heels of my feet. I walk on my toes.) I was 16 years old and an A student!
Yeah, mental illness does exist. There are medicines out there that do wonderful things for some of these people. But uniqueness is being treated as a mental condition. If you odn't behave "normally" (whatever that means) then there must be something wrong with you.
Also, I love all those young ADHD kids out there that live on a diet of sugar and more sugar. Of course they are bouncing off the wall.
To be honest, a couple things are neat to know. I have a wildly fluctuating IQ (probably do to my wildly fluctuating attention span and changing attitude about the whole thing). Apparently sometimes I'm literally a genius. At other times I'm literally retarded.
But really, most of it is a croc. I remember getting super-angry at the age of 16 because a neurologist more or less told my mother, in front of me, that I had severe mental deficiencies and will never lead a normal life because I walked on my toes. (I don't walk on the heels of my feet. I walk on my toes.) I was 16 years old and an A student!
Yeah, mental illness does exist. There are medicines out there that do wonderful things for some of these people. But uniqueness is being treated as a mental condition. If you odn't behave "normally" (whatever that means) then there must be something wrong with you.
Also, I love all those young ADHD kids out there that live on a diet of sugar and more sugar. Of course they are bouncing off the wall.
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