Sunday, March 21, 2010

Are You Raising A Disease Or A Child?

That's a question I keep coming back to, the more I read up on parents of children who ~supposedly~ have things like autism, aspergers, ADD, ADHD and the like. Now, I don't deny that those things exist, but it honestly seems as if some parents are more interested in labeling their child than they are raising them. There also seems to be a *LOT* of parents who seemingly "self-diagnose" their children, for whatever twisted reason. It's almost like a new form of Münchausen syndrome, one that the medical community seems very happy to accommodate in order to sell pharmaceuticals to parents so they can drug their child off to school everyday. Daddy's little disorder. Mommy's little malady. *shakes head* I feel a great swell of pity for those children, I really do.