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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is an interesting topic. Looking back on all of my friends from growing up in the U.S. in the 80s and 90s none had SN back then and I don’t think any were just not diagnosed but do have issues now/later in life.

When I think about my DD’s 5th grade class more than half of her friends have ADHD, dyslexia or other learning differences. I only know this because I was at a moms’ dinner where they were comparing IEP and 504 plans and I was pretty surprised.[/quote]

Do their kids seem so different than the kids you grew up with?

My DD has ADHD and ASD and as we've gotten her diagnosed and started treating these issues I've realized it's highly likely I had some version of the same issues as a child. But I was forced to become very good at masking from a very young age because I had a big family (five kids) and a younger sibling who was very sick as a baby and then had more pronounced SNs. But I had a lot of the same symptoms -- insomnia, lots of textural issues with food and clothes, struggling with social interactions involving more than one other person, developing strong obsessions, being very sensitive to rejection -- but people just viewed these as quirks of my personality (and labeled me as "weird" or "a spaz") and no one understood that this is just how ASD presents in girls often.

I doubt anyone I grew up with sits around thinking that I must have had undiagnosed SNs -- I did well in school and had friends. But I privately struggled, started having behavioral issues in late high school (not a normal time for these things to surface -- my masking stopped working so well as more stress came into my life), wound up with crushingly low self esteem in college and after, have struggled with depression throughout adulthood, and have difficulty with social relationships. My DH has ADHD.

You don't know what people are going through privately and a lot of people struggled a lot with undiagnosed SNs when we were kids. [/quote]

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