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Oh, I have a perfectly good idea of how much of an asshole I was being. I'm a total stranger on the Internet and I have no clue about you and your circumstance
by primitur 14y ago
Oh, I have a perfectly good idea of how much of an asshole I was being. I'm a total stranger on the Internet and I have no clue about you and your circumstance beyond what you yourself proffer. That is the simple truth.
But look, you put your personal life on the line with this discussion. Did you do that in order to gain sympathy, compassion, understanding .. from an Internet stranger?
Or did you bring your son into this discussion for the sake of winning an argument about social normatives as 'an authority', having read the books, bought the drugs, gotten with the program?
I think you should examine your motives on that.
My personal position is that anyone who drugs their child, for whatever reason, is as much a part of the problem as the perceived 'malady' of the child. Thats my personal opinion - like you have your personal experiences, I have mine too. You can tread on my opinion if you like - after all you are just as much of an internet stranger with the potential to be an asshole as I am. I have absolutely no problems with being called names for having an unpopular opinion (although, careful with the name-calling: you might get us both hell-banned).
>to be able to survive in society to my satisfaction.
So you've chosen your path, as a parent, and I've chosen mine as a parent as well: two boys, neither will ever get anywhere near anyone who might consider industrialized mental health 'solutions' such as drugging them, as a means of imposing society's cultural norms, because my boys don't 'behave' per the standard set for them. Thats just simply not going to happen. I'll live with the consequences of my decision, just as you have lived with yours. To me, your chosen path seems like its more for your sake than theirs, since it is you who is having the communication difficulties, but again: I don't know all the facts. I won't judge you as I have no right..
I urge you, however, to reconsider just how much you truly know about the subject, and how much you've been told to think about the subject without questioning the authorities in power. All humans deserve a chance: drugging children at an early age because they don't meet societys' standards, is in my opinion worse than the so-called symptoms. Not to mention there is a lot of profit being made from legally drugging children in this world today.
Just an opinion from a random internet asshole. Nice chatting with you. I wish you all the best, and your son a happy and productive life, as he sees fit.
- btilly 14y agoI brought my son in to provide personal experience demonstrating that your guess about lack of sleep is completely wrong. Every guess you've made since about how my family resembles your stereotype of a family that would medicate has been laughably wrong. I don't know what you think you know, or why you think you know it, but you've demonstrated a complete inability to acknowledge any experiential input. In light of that grotesque failure, I suggest that you question your own firmly held opinions. Because so far you're batting 0. Here is another mistake of yours: if I was medicating my son for my sake, I'd medicate him every day, rather than arranging for him to be under the influence of medication only for the periods that he's in the classroom. In fact the main benefit that I have received so far is that I no longer have to comfort him while he's crying about how frustrating school was for him. I hope for your children's sake that they never require assistance that you're unwilling to consider for them. Luckily most don't, so their odds are pretty good. But I'm sure that if you get the average result, you'll take all of the credit for them doing expectedly well.
- primitur 14y ago>I brought my son in to provide personal experience demonstrating that your guess about lack of sleep is completely wrong. On the basis of a single data point. >I hope for your children's sake that they never require assistance that you're unwilling to consider for them. Luckily most don't, so their odds are pretty good. .. but then again, this is groupthink at its finest. Are you religious by any chance?