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From the category archives:
Nor am I a “hostage”. Calling children who have psychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders “hostages” is insulting and offensive. Like Katherine, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. This ad is utterly offensive. It emphasizes all the negative, none of the positive.
My first thought was that the NYU Child [...]
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While I was watching my beautiful 13-year old girl dance last Friday, the Megan Meier story hit the Internet. Hard. It hit me hard, too. Right in the gut, because I walked in that 13-year old’s ADHD depressed shoes many years ago and could feel what she felt, just reading the third-hand accounts.
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I’m sorry, but I would never do this, no matter how much I wanted to support the Autism Network.
For starters, it would completely embarrass all of my kids, no matter what their age. And second, it reminds me of those awful bumper stickers about “my child being student of the month”, etc. in [...]
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…is it so difficult to write after saying I’ll post one blog post a day for a month which is nothing different than I normally do? It could be that I’ve been off meds this weekend because I didn’t get to the doctor’s office to pick up the scripts in time, which also means [...]
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Well, it wasn’t as bad as I imagined it could be, though there were a few times where I imagined myself strangling Katie Couric for her leeeaaaading questions and sort of sneery attitude. Some of her classics:
“Did you ever think it was just the terrible twos?”
(Mom: Um, yeah, I suppose, but it was worse.)
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2 1/2 minute Chevron commercials and Katie Couric spewing sensationalistic “overmedicating bipolar children” reports…
The commercial is on now. It’s just the usual crock — we’re Chevron, we’re people, we’re YOU. The power of human energy indeed. I’ll take them seriously when they don’t rape our wallets on a daily basis.
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