I think it's a mark of what a wonderful country we 'were' that parents with children who have severe ADHD are given help towards a car, to the value of £2,5000 a year...

I never knew you could get it.

I watched my friend struggle terribly with her son, who has Aspergers and ADHD. She barely wanted to take him out to public places in the end. They were lucky, they could afford a car, for her husband had a job and his dad is very wealthy.

However, had she NOT had a car of her own then taking her son *anywhere* on public transport would have been a total bloody nightmare...and the very people on this thread who are tut-tutting would have been the same ones who, if having to share a bus/coach/train with a child like hers, would be saying "How DISGUSTING to have a child like THAT!!" annoyed at having their peace and quiet disturbed, probably wanting 'kids like that' to be banned from public transport entirely!

Bastards!


And yes, Ben is now all growed up..much better having been to a special school (his grandpa paid) where children with ADHD/ADD/Dyslexia/Autism were fully understood and cared for, each child taught in the way they could learn, naturally, thus removing the 'You are SO STUPID!' label from their souls....

He still has problems, but is able to step back, mostly, and cope with them. He will ALWAYS have problems, but again, as he gets older, hopefully, he will be able to cope more and more.

Ben is one of the lucky ones...Parents who both care, Grandparents who are filthy rich...Had his grandfather NOT been around, then his life would have been very different, for whilst in the state system he ended up on the outside window-sill of his bedroom, wanting to end his life. He was 10 years old..bullied senseless by both pupils and teachers who could not cope with him...

He wouldn't LEARN in THEIR way, you see...and being around so many other children scared him senseless.....

So fook everyone on here who thinks that 'children like this' are making it up, or being foul..for it is a life-long way of life for them...they merely think differently..and they are NOT YOU!