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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sure hope no farmers are reading this forum, some pretty insulting things have been said of their profession, by some ignorant douche.[/quote]

Who insulted farmers?[/quote]

PP who said that she would move to a farm and train her kid to be a farmer or "something"....before ever medicating her child. I can't think how can anybody who claims to have a PhD in science think that being a farmer is in any way a viable or a good idea for a person with ADHD.[/quote]

PP here who first mentioned farming. Not sure how you jumped to the conclusion that I have no respect for farmers. We actually have huge respect for farmers. We aren’t rich but a huge portion of our income goes towards good quality food - organic, pastured, etc. It’s our greatest expense. We are happy to support our local farmers.

You really think I’d get one of my kids into something that I had no respect for?  :roll: The fact that you jumped to the conclusion that farming is crap and I must disrespect it says way more about you than it does about me.

I think that you, on the other hand, are being disrespectful towards people with ADHD. People with ADHD aren’t dumb or somehow less capable of hard work and solving problems than anyone else. I have family members with unmedicated ADHD and I know exactly what they’re capable of, and it seems to be a lot more than you think. Farming is full of interesting challenges, especially smaller-scale organic farming, yet there’s a lot of variety and it’s mostly hands-on work. People with ADHD are very capable of learning it, even though it’s not easy. I can actually imagine my kids loving it, ESPECIALLY the one who is the most likely to have ADHD. There are also many other possibilities of course (furniture was also on my mind, funny to see a PP mention it), but as I said, we do support our farms and so it happened to be first on my mind. And yes, of course the kids can decide what they want to do! We see it as our duty as parents to help our kids figure that out.

My point was that despite our strong academic backgrounds, and the ideas that we originally had about the lives that our kids would live, we won’t be pushing our kids to follow in our footsteps (and certainly not at all costs) and stare at a screen all day if it works out that they’ll probably be happier and better suited to doing something else.[/quote]

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