the meds are here and i am terrified to take them - so many side effects!!
I got told not to take any on holiday because my doctor said I probably won’t need them then, but I’m worried to start taking them and then not taking them for a week
If it helps, depending on what type you are prescribed, there shouldn't be an issue taking a break. My son was medicated like this throughout his childhood, so school times and any 'away' holidays he'd be medicated but weekends and holiday time at home he wasn't. Also, it helped his appetite because it was diminished a bit when he took the medication so he was able to enjoy eating normally at other times.
My brother filled mine in even though he was a child at the time too. My dad was pretty useless and my mum is dead. Funnily enough I’d been through a big box of school stuff a year or so before and I found it so sad to read I threw it away. All variations of ‘bright but lazy, could so much better if she applied herself’ in primary school and ‘lazy, talkative, disruptive, not reaching her potential, relies on her intelligence not hard work’ etc. I know it was the 90s but it was there, and nobody who read it made any link at all.
I'm not diagnosed but my school reports (80's and 90's) are almost a carbon copy of that right from early primary. Twit rushes and makes silly mistakes, Twit is capable but would achieve more if they applied themselves. It's glaring now I have knowledge I have and it has at least allowed me to spot those phrases in my children's school reports (three dx autism, 2 also ADHD) and explain to teachers why that might be happening and what they can do to support it. I'm also fortunate in that my parents also recognise it now which has been quite cathartic for us all. I was quite difficult to deal with as a child (meltdowns etc) and they had sought help but didn't really have any answers. So now my children have been diagnosed it's all clicked into place.
As an adult I've been fortunate enough to choose studies and a career where I can hyper focus but I found school quite overwhelming yet intensly boring and didn't do very well in terms of GCSE's. It was just too broad.
Even these days I try and explain to people that when I'm trying to learn something some stuff, at times it's like someone has tossed all of the information up in air and it's all floating there but I can't bring it down in front of me and order it in a way that makes sense. I sort of hope this description resonates with someone because I feel quite alone with it sometimes.
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