went out to lunch today for a kindy mum's mother's day luncheon - usually don't but figured what the heck - knew some mums I get on well with would be there.
WELL:
got stuck with some whose conversation was about their houses - moved not big enough, can't possibly move as it would not be as good as it is but don't want to stay as they need more room - heaven forbid toys are in the lounge room (* eidsvold thinks - gosh I have toys all over the house - just pick them up!) THinking if that is all one has to worry about in life they should be grateful.
then the corker - ADD does not exist nor does ADHD - it is spelt COKE said one mother!! How ritalin was being used as a behaviour correction and how people needed to look at their lives and homes before they dashed off to get ritalin from the doc!!!
at this stage I was sooo stunned I could not speak - realised then they did not know I had a child with sn - mothers from the other room and thought OMG how judgemental and ignorant to be saying things like that.
Now I wish I had said something but it just made me realise I should have sat elsewhere - closer to people who I get on with ( but had pram so sat at the end so as not to be in anyone's way!)
Just could not believe that supposedly intelligent sensible people felt that way and thought how terrible it would have been to have been a mother who may have had a child with ADD or ADHD and sat at that table!!