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TheNewCyric
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Parent teacher conference/Medication!
I was diagnosed with ADHD,BIPOLAR,ODD long time ago, i decided now im willing to take medication, cool i guess!
this week im having a parent teacher conference due to my behavior in the classroom,im not sure if these were designed to help kids or what,but these make my life a living hell, i feel like a piece of shit and get depressed,then i get grounded,
any advice for what to say at the conference
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Parent teacher conference/Medication!
I don't know if I can really think of anything to help you at the conference... But I do have a question, have you ever questioned your ADHD or ODD?
I've heard of many cases where supposed ADHD just dissappeared once they were at a Sudbury school, for example.
ODD seems more like something authoritarians made up.
"If you don't blindly follow orders you're weird." That's what it seems like, anyway.
Does school stress you or anything, or is it just incredibly boring, etc. It would definetly help if you told how you feel at school as well.
"They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority" -Gerald Massey.
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KFC Nyan Cat
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ODD is essentially made up to blockade free thinkers from being taken seriously.
Seriously, Jesus shows all of the symptoms of that, and most of these people worship him.
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RE: Parent teacher conference/Medication!
Yup, it's sad really. It's basically the thought police! "You're questioning the system? You have ODD, that isn't good (even though we don't really seem to know what right and wrong is.) Here, take some meds, they will help us keep you under contro- I mean help you with your problems.
"They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority" -Gerald Massey.
"The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education." -Anonymous person
"Reward and punishment is the lowest form of education." -Chuang Tzu
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brainiac3397
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What's ODD?
The one who came up with it needs a kick in the crotch for the obvious meaning of the abbreviation. Just for lulz.
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RE: Parent teacher conference/Medication!
^Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Believing that ODD is real is one symptom of Waste Of Oxygen Disorder. Waste Of Oxygen Disorder almost always requires medication, usually cyanide.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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-_-
I guess every revolutionary suffered from ODD. Washington really needed a shrink for his opposition and defiance to the English crown I guess?
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Ive questioned the ADHD, and ive been watching adhd seminars, and went to one in miami, from Russell Barkley,i cant even focus on games, i can play a game i love for 5 mins, then i have to stop,i fidget(Usually destroy things), the ODD Russell Barkley said he thinks its a social, and it comes from adults, he said kids with adhd face so much misunderstanding criticizing and anger towards them that they develop ODD to cope with it
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