@ The Quern of Bitches, don't worry about the spelling errors

This was a great and inspiring article to read. I struggle with a few of these disorders so this was of significant importance to me. Very uplifting, thank you for posting this!

Yea he doesn't mention it becux he knows I would get hurt if he mentions it again.

@kelly every disorder is personal. His is clearly ONLY adhd, but they don't have classes just for that. A lot of children with autism have adhd, but it doesn't mean that they are always together. I understand what he means, and he never called them stupid, but they do have a different teaching system for them, and it's not geared towards adhd specifically and he felt he didn't fit in. My cousin went to my elementary with me, he had fetal alcohol syndrome, along with several learning disabilities, but my elementary school only had a special class for those who had stunted learning (or those who were learning English, or hadn't hone to school before) and he got lumped in with them because they didn't have a specialized program for what he needed, but he needed more than regular classroom type teaching. Even me, I have severe anxiety and manic depression, and regular schooling was incredibly hard for me, I never fit in, and then I got sent to another schooling systems which was for people who had suicidal tendencies and I didn't fit in either. It's hard with a mental disorder, especially when people just lump you in with everyone else. Disorders are so personalized. I get manic depression but I don't feel like hurting myself on my low days. And channing Tatum has adhd and everyone assumed he was Autistic. Which he isn't. It's not a bad thing even if he was, but he didn't get proper teaching because he got lumped in with the kids who had autism and much more severe cases than just adhd, in which they can function on a modified schooling lesson in normal classes, or the school can do the easier thing and send anyone with a disorder that makes their learning curve differently all together.

I don't understand why some people r rude and why do,e people r just too easily offended here. I remember saying that I am photogenic in a article and this person just said:really r u sure cuz I am not seeing it. That person has not commented here but she comments a lot. And I just want her to know it hurt me that u said that so watch what u say, do u have to make someone have low self esteem cuz u feel like they r confident enough to think they look good in pictures? Do u have to shoot them down with ur hurtful comments?and then other people commented cheering her on saying that it was a good thing that she was blunt but I was hurt okay cuz unfortunately I have feelings so I just want to say watch what u say to other people.

And at that time when I was thirteen I was bullied in school so bad I ended up in the hospital. A kid pushed me off some stairs. First he did it on a small number of stairs I only got bruises on my arms and legs. I kept quiet becux he was someone. From my family. Then he pushed me from a lot of stairs and I fainted and someone called an ambulance and lost aloft of blood that day. The kid ran away and he wasn't cAught and the workers mistake I did was not tell him name to the police. So my life was terrible. I stayed depressed for a life time. I thought about suicide all the time. But I knew that I was gonna be strong one day and be happy that lived.

Poor Whoopy. I do sympathise with her. A few of my relatives suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to being in Korea . In those days it was not even recognised. It is heartbreaking living with such people witnessing their nightmares and sufferings mentally as outsiders don't see this. For any of you here whatever you suffer from ,don't despair. There is always someone who will still love you no matter what spiteful others may try to tell you. ( Queen thinking of you. Just smile!) .

These are strong people dealing with these issues. These issues are real and happening in the world we live in. It's sad for those people who are going through one disorder or another

@kelly I'm Canadian and we have special schools for autism, one that I frequently volunteer at with my work. It is MUCH better to have a school where they can learn in a personalized way. I never said they weren't as smart, but studies do show they learn differently then non autistic children. And a lot of teachers don't have much experience with autism, so when something happens that's not a usual learning bump, it can be incredibly discouraging for the children and frustrating for the teacher, parent and child. I have studied psychology. And yes, it's technically on the spectrum but that doesn't mean it's the same thing nor do they have to go hand in hand. Autistic children do better in certain environments, and schools try and compensate for that but they have to lump every child with any disorder in that class. Or they'd have several 2-3 child classes. I'm America if you are in public school you are in basic or "behavior" classes, which is for mental or behavioral disorders and they get treated differently, but they aren't as personalized as they should be. Not everyone learns the same. Even kids without any disorder, some are visual learners, some audio, etc. The extra support autistic children need are not generally in normal classes, unless the teacher is an excellent person who goes the extra mile for every student, the autistic child in normal classes will struggle. Not to mention the other children may or may not understand autism. The quote is very out of context, he said it on his show with bear grills, and he was saying that he didn't need as much support as someone with full autism, and he didn't feel he fit in, because he wasn't autistic, but regular classes weren't enough for him either. So he didn't fit in there, and his parents had to choose which group he got lumped in with, because they didn't have a specialized program for adhd alone. He isn't stigmatising or making it negative, he was saying he had trouble figuring out where he belonged in the education system and it took him a lot more effort in school because they didn't really understand it at the time, and his teachers treated him like he was worse than he was (again, not saying autism is a bad thing, but it can be very hard to deal with), but he got through it and graduated, which he never thought he could do when he was younger. Now he's living his dream and found ways of helping his adhd rather than having people treat it like a disorder he didn't have.

Well u r pretty awesome at what u do with ur words and how u completely understand me without even knowing me.