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Rewards
The reward is seeing Stephanie come into her own and seeing her successes. Where there is still worry, there used to be so much more worry about her, and I would say that with every passing day I realize that she probably has been blessed with many more gifts than anybody I know and I really feel like she just has so many opportunities— she can pick whatever she wants and she will succeed. I think most of the kids with ADHD are very smart, they’re very loving, they’re good kids. They’re honest kids. Lindsay has a very big heart— if she sees somebody who is an underdog or being picked on, or somebody who’s new at the school, she’ll be the first one over there to help them out. She knows what it’s like to be the underdog, having ADHD, and what it’s like to be different. So I think most of these kids are really caring kids. They care about other people. Well, they are very creative and they are such good kids. They have so much to give to the world if people could only appreciate that. When I talk about creativity, I’m talking more in the ability to adapt to whatever circumstance they were in and somehow manage to survive it and come out on the other side of it stronger, not necessarily artistic creativity. I just think Megan is the funniest, most amazing kid on the face of the earth. I think she is lovable and some of her lack of focus and distraction and forgetfulness is also very humorous. We have found humor in it. She takes things so literally. When she was little I told her we had to take the dog to the vet and she said, “What’s a vet?” and I told her, “The dog doctor” and she kept saying, “Well that’s just not possible, there can’t be such a thing as a dog doctor.” I go, “Honey, why not? When you get sick I take you to the doctor. Why wouldn’t we take a dog to the doctor if he gets sick?” She said, “How is a dog going to use a stethoscope?” She thought that a veterinarian was a dog that was a doctor. That’s just how she thinks. But that is what so endearing about her. She really is extremely lovable and humorous. She is an amazing kid. Both of my children who have ADD have real insights that are different like they march to a different drummer. Not in a bad way, actually in a very good way: they are very sensitive, they pick up on cues, they realize if something is bothering someone. They are real sensitive to that sort of thing which is pretty interesting. The older one is real creative and he actually is not on medication any more and is doing extremely well, is in college and is doing really great things and is very sort of level headed and easy going so he’s doing really well. And Emma, she’s pretty interesting. I don’t know the best way to describe this— she’s just a love. She’s always happy; she rarely gets frustrated and even with the difficulties that she has, she really doesn’t get frustrated. She just seems to enjoy everything that she does. |
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