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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I was the one who made the coparenting comment. The compulsory parts of parenting (laundry! Schedule! Chores! Good!) are the ones that happen over and over on a schedule that’s not fungible. So by definition, a spouse that can’t pull their fair share of weight in those areas is not coparenting equally. Sure, the traits you describe are important to parenting, but they’re not exclusive to people with ADHD and frankly many people with ADHD who do have talents in those areas have trouble deploying those emotional resources in a timely and effective way if there is any other practical demand on their plate.

So I will stand by my comment that ADHD parents are not equal coparents. They can be good parents for sure- no one here is arguing about that- but their deficits mean that their fellow parent will not have an equal partner in the work of parenting their children.[/quote]

PP here. Just want to say thank you for saying this. It just helps to know there are other folks out there who understand what it's like to be NT with an ADHD spouse.[/quote]

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