Your child may have chronic pain and not tell you because they thought everyone feels like that, and they just have to push through.
Your child may have chronic fatigue and they told you they were tired several times when you had things for them to do, but you said, "You can't be tired already, the day has just started."
Your child may know they are different from other children and constantly be trying to figure out why instructions that work for others don't work for them, but you chose to hide their diagnosis from them instead of equipping them with understanding.
Your child may have many symptoms that don't fit that diagnosis, but you are using that one diagnosis to explain everything, and you're calling it all 'behaviour'.
Who taught you to think like this?
Do adults who went through all these things in childhood say that having a parent with your way of thinking is helpful?
Who taught you this fear?
Maybe this happened to you too, and now you're doing the same to your child?
https://twitter.com/ReverendMoose/status/1499747840255578113?t=yH1WkhZAMKpwBYkRoGbcOA&s=19
'Growing pains'. That term has come up over and over in quote retweets and replies to this thread.
Many people have said that their parents and childhood doctors dismissed their pain as growing pains, and how the pain persisted into adulthood.
Many people have said that their parents and childhood doctors dismissed their pain as growing pains, and how the pain persisted into adulthood.
So... shall we talk about 'growing pains'? Here's a thread, and a rabbithole.
https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1499875108491603970?t=GlvBjXT5ANaM30g54CiVUQ&s=19
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