Oh my gosh.

I wasnt' trying to get one.

But i just got a friend of a parent I've been working with,
Who asked me to work with this parent. And has stayed
involved to write me a letter to my supervisor.

She also knows lots of things about what goes on in our
town. She has been part of the disability community here
for a while. So it should be interesting.

Wow, I have a review coming up on Nov. 27th.

I usually get nervous but I haven't been this year.

I have been doing so good. Its just a normal day.

Donna

Last night went well. I had a great one. I did well with my little
speech. Then I had lots of parents at my table picking up things.

Donna

Dear Donna,
question that I have been wondering about.
Why does it seem that there are so many more disabled kids than there used to be? ADHD< AUTISM<ETC>
Do you have any theories?
bizi

I am so glad everything went good

Honestly there are lots of reason's

One is that people are starting to recognize it more.

Another is that people are realizing that its okay to ask for help!
Is my opinion. And that as a child if you don't get the help you
need you can't succeed in our world today.

Many children in the past, didn't always get the help they needed.
So they had more problems as adults. I personally feel.

And at times, we still find that we are more ashamed as adults
to admit we have problems.

I know my kids, I'm personally more wanting to find the help
they need. Because I got help. But one of the main reason's
I was helped, was because mine was medical.

But I also always felt worthless, because kids teased me
all the time. Because I was different.

So now I don't want any kid to go through that. And lots
of parents don't either.

And ADHD, is technically overdiagnosed at times. And in
my opinion sometimes Autism can go either way. It can
be truely diagnosed or it can be because they aren't sure its
behavioral so they say autism. It really sometimes bugs
me that they tag so many kids with Autism.

Donna

so they are over diagnosing and over medicating them then.
I don't like that at all.
bizi

Donna,

That stinks to go through that as a kid. You are doing fantastic work.

M

Sometimes they do.

I am just not sure.



I even hate to admit. I"m slightly in a predictument.

I may be going to put myself in this category.

I am slightly afraid, my grandson. Could easily be autistic.

I am not positive, but I know something is going on.
Along with the speech. And I've got to keep getting to
the bottom of it.

So I'm going to research somemore. And continue to fight
to figure it out. But we wont just lable to be labeling.

Hope it makes sense.


Donna