Older generation and ADHD/Autism
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The irony is they did exist as my dad who went to school in the 50s has a very different view of special needs schools. I have a distant cousin in his 50s with learning disabilities that went to an sen school. They’re probably more worried it could be genetic. My mum was very dismissive until my son was diagnosed. The thing is she’s never seen him in a class of 30 other kids where he stands out like a sore thumb and the older he gets the more obvious it is.
It's funny and sad how parents/grandparents and things will deny it exists saying it never existed then but they're the same people showing every trait affiliated with ADHD/ASD but got so used to masking it because of the fact it "didn't exist" back then
Ugh yes 🫠 I remember my boomer dad the first time he heard about tourettes, he said "they'd soon stop doing that if you gave them a slap each time they did it" 🙃 Uh huh.. ok pops
Getting diagnosed will help down the line as it takes years to get diagnosed and sort out help/support for any kind of educational needs honestly I'd suggest getting ur little one diagnosed so that if they need the help down the line it'll be quicker and easier to get the help they need and will also help them and people around them to understand why they are the way they are sometimes I remember very well before I was diagnosed with dyslexia as I kid that doctors and school and other adults just saying I was lazy and seeing my older brother when he was getting diagnosed with adhd (witch at the time was 2 different diagnosis AD and HD) and how people used to always say he was just misbehaved and full of suger and I remember quit clearly people from the older generation saying things like a good clip around the ear would put any child with special needs into there place and stop there behavior and how you could learn to not be dyslexic and how in there day special needs were either basically beaten out of
Children or was just not a thing al all witch is just stupid honesty it's crazy how much things have changed for educational needs but there will always be people that don't ignoledged them or except them x
And while getting diagnosed dose bring up the possibility of bullying I'd say the chances of being bullied in school are there with or without the diagnoses and honestly understanding of these kinds of educational needs have been getting better and better over the years and with a diagnoses at least you can explain the behavior instead of just getting picked on because u act wierd and don't know why children can be cruel I was picked on throughout school but I'll ne deadly honest it got so much better once I changed into a school the specialized in dyslexia there was still bullying but it wasn't because I was dyslexic it was just random rubbish that was easy to bush off comped to all the mainstream schools I was in where they would bully me for being dyslexic then again the understanding of it wasn't grate back then it's much better now and understood a lot more now but we all know people that got bullied in school that didn't have a diagnosed educational needs problem they just got bullied because
That's what kids do in school unfortunately weather or not ur diagnosed with something you have a 50/50 chance of it happening to you that's just school life lol x
It did exist. Their generation was just use to making fun of ppl, calling them retarded or stupid and weird. They also didn’t have much of a way of diagnosing like they do not. So many kids didn’t not get the help they needed. I don’t think it’s boxing her in. My 7 year old is ASD and my 10 year old is not. I struggled hard with my 7 year old. Getting her diagnosed helped me help her. She now gets the help she needs in school.