This is actually why I want to work with Children with Autism, ID, ADHD or any other neuro-divergence.
Being a pre-teen and watching my useless parents first deny anything was wrong with my young sister, until she started kindergarten and was forced to take her to a psychiatrist because the school was complaining .
Then seeing them pump her with the absolute highest doses of psychotropic drugs morning and night as early as five years old, which absolutely did nothing for her behavior and learning abilities because there was ZERO therapy to supplement the drugs. My parents themselves did so very little to understand her mental disorders that they probably couldn’t even tell you what her diagnosis is.
She repeated kindergarten 3 times til she was just passed through and basically warehoused in the resource classes. She dropped out of school in the 5th grade at age 13, then bounced around institutions for problematic kids cause she kept jail-breaking them.
By her teens she had severe aggressive issues.
There’s actually a term for “agression issues in teens that were heavily medicated at a young age”.
I can’t seem to find it now. If anyone knows maybe what I’m talking about, let me know please
I still to this day have a hard time getting over blaming myself for her downfall because it was when I moved out at 17 that a year later she dropped out of school and started having real troubles.
So I would really like to be there for other ND kids that need support outside of drugs.
I’m just now starting my path in legitimate education so I’m not sure
what I want to do.
Do I want to go more towards something in-class like a teachers aid… do I want to go more towards a nursing career in office or at home…
Do I want to go more towards in home respite care?
I would really like to do something like in-home activities. I can’t have children so I have a million little ideas for projects and learning games I will never get to do. Or maybe I’m just saving them up for someone else’s child in the future.