Yesterday, I noticed something that I've noticed before, but tended to write off...when she's tired, she's grumpy.
She picked our son up, and I tried to mention something about ADHD that I thought would help her with him, but she got really stand-offish and sarcastic about it.
Basically, our son's psychologist said he's got ADHD. So do I, so I can recognize his symptoms. So do my older two kids, my brother, and so I do a LOT of research on it. She decided that she didn't want to hear it, so she chose to (at least in the conversation) believe that he's got autism...which he pretty much has none of the symptoms for (except those that overlap ADHD).
Basically, just to shut me up.
I'm starting to think (which my doctor pointed out when she went for me to get diagnosed), that she has it, too.
Of course, I hope she's thinking about it and taking it seriously. It doesn't give her a pass...but it DOES make me understand the behavior more if that's the case.
I dunno. She maintains to her friends that she never wants to come back. But I think she's going to have a LOT of thinking to do. And I'm starting to think that she's going to end up being diagnosed with ADHD at some point...and if so, then that may shift things even more...whether for the positive or negative, I don't know.
