DAE mental health don’t real???! More child abuse now!
(now I’m a pain in the ass 40-year-old)
Damn, maybe if your parents got your issues diagnosed and treated you might have turned out differently
Just a total lack of imagination of how things could have been better for them and how they could be for the next generations. Reductive “it sucked for me, so it has to suck for everyone else, too” thinking. Distilled boomerism
I spent my childhood undiagnosed because of this exact reason and you know how I turned out? Heavily traumatised and barely functioning with strong suicidal tendencies completely unable to integrate into adult life.
Also people like this refuse to acknowledge that the structure of the school system fucking sucks and is complete torture to anyone neurodivergent. Maybe forced obedience and rote memorization of bullshite isn’t the optimal way to spend the first 18 years of our lives
My sister mentioned a while back that she wondered what my life would have been like if I’d gotten help when I was younger.
me with AuDHD because they thought you can’t already be ADHD and also have autism
As I child I longed to sit quietly in a room with no windows and do mindless repetitive work during the nicest days of the year. Because that is normal for a child.
Schools are great on paper, but holy shit is the US educational system due for an overhaul.
The way they’re designed has to be subtly to make children grow up:
- Hating learning
- Used to spending their days on pointless busywork
Even if it was a middle-of-the-road succdem country, the US would kick so much ass if it was willing to invest in anything besides military or subsidizing porky.
Would be nice not to have ADHD but fantasize alot about about growing up in a communist world where:
- My attention span isn’t being preyed upon and there are no commodities to fetishisize.
- Once I learn to read and with some guidence, I am left to work through text books at my own pace. I discover the joy of actually learning through patiently scanning the same paragraph three times some thirty years earlier.
Malnutrition, air pollution, and unclean water are quite harmful to childhood development, but we too rarely hear of discipline for those responsible
Am I letting down the children? No, it is the teachers who are wrong
notice how people only ever talk about not taking responsibility for your actions when they’re mad that someone is putting a responsibility on them?
My wife is a citizen and sees it ALL THE TIME. The American are fine, but they lack the kind of boundaries and discipline that is necessary to properly develop a decent person. Instead of providing those boundaries and discipline, the politicians just chase a diagnosis, usually exceptionalism. They get the American hopped up on a bunch of unnecessary wars, have some special trade agreement created for them, etc. All of that could have been avoided by simply BEING A GOOD PERSON.
I think it’s a spin-off of the “nothing is your fault” culture we have created in the US. People are desperate to have an excuse for everything rather than accept the consequences of the choices they have made. In this case, it’s “your plane isn’t crashing into a tower because of imperialist blowback, it’s because they hate Americans”.
I could have ended up down that road. I was a pain in the ass patriot (now I’m a pain in the ass communist). Fortunately for me, my party resisted the growing trend to have me consume and manufacture consent. This was in the early 90s when this bullshit was just catching on. I’m sure the pressure is even stronger now. A steady diet of theory, goals, and political organizing kept me in line and I somehow made it through school without a crippling paper trail.
