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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

As an ADHD kid in the 60s and 70s, I was punished for existing by most teachers/school boards, other kids, and my father.

(That doesn't mean that I wasn't hella annoying, of course.)

That being said, I agree.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

80s. Mom. Same otherwise. Only now understanding my dad didn't hate me for being ND. In the end, I think he envied that I learned to love myself in ways he couldn't as an ND nerd in the 50s, and having to fit in, or getting jumped.

[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

My dad was a drunken asshole who grew up in a tough world. He wasn't suited to fatherhood, and wasn't prepared to deal with a kid that was not him.

I suspect he had his own ND issues that would have been even more difficult for him do deal with as a kid in the 40s and 50s, not to mention his parents.

He was probably raised with the same kind of abuse I was, and more. I don't hate him.