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[quote=Anonymous]One of kids is 2e (learning disabled and gifted), with medical diagnoses, so I get the judgement from all sides, OP. We push academics because that what he's good at, we didn't enroll him in team sports because he was miserably bad at them and hated it, he has all kinds of medical issues as well... we do the opposite of what most American parents dream for their kids.
 My friend's husband thinks we're nuts for medicating his severe ADHD, because "boys will be boys" and ADHD doesn't exist, others think that with his issues we should just be happy he's mainstreamed (and fail to grasp that rigorous academics are his ticket to financial independence), and still others think we should force him into sports because "it will teach him so much" (yeah no, we tried that and it didn't - after PT we did gym and ballet instead). And we don't share his medical issues with anyone, because that's a whole other can of worms and they're really hard to address.

So we socialize with people who are supportive, or at least keep their opinions to themselves.[/quote]

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