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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone who understands what I am saying. SIL did not say or do anything to DD but register garden variety disapproval. This is not at all about me being overprotective of her.

The interaction I am referring to is SIL talking to _me_ and revealing the extent of her unbelievable judgementalism, ignorance and denial of her own problems.

If you want the real scoop on that entire family (DH's) you can read the post "outraged at DH's family's treatment of him." This post here is just one aspect of SIL that has come out.

I realize now also that parenting and helping an ADHD child is very taxing and requires a lot of patience and willingness to learn. DH's parents never had either. But they stigmatized and scapegoated him in ways  I would not expect an elementary school teacher RECENTLY TRAINED who has ADD herself and who I would HOPE would have been trained in at least spotting some possible signs of it in kids. Rather than thinking of them as bad, poorly parented kids.

THAT is what kind of blows my mind.

DH says he now realizes he has in the past been judgemental of kids behaviors who he now thinks might have ADD- the good thing there is that I told him he is not allowed to do that to our kid. Now _he_ has to do the hard  work his parents (and now idiot sister) never did.

The ignorance stops here. Not on my watch, as the saying goes.

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