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Now that I finished most of my ADHD research I realised that for me living with this disorder is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is exclusion. In the German history exclusion obviously played a big part, you might even say it's our biggest atrocity. Maybe it's human nature, though we should do everything to stop it.
When my siblings went to primary school they invented this new concept of "I-classes" (integration classes). So everyone with a disorder or disability (like dyslexia or hearing disorders) were put together in one class.
To me, this is the most absurd thing you could possibly do. We are growing up in a community of values and solidarity, so why can we not be all together and learn from each other? Studies have shown that we are all capable of more than expected from us so excluding us from the "normal rest" just causes misperceptions on both sides, lowers self-esteem and is pretty much the opposite of Integration.
When I thought about my families position in our environment (not friends& family) the first word that came to my mind was exclusion.
The girl in the picture is my sister. She almost died at her birth, the doctors were close to accidentally breaking her neck (and never told us about it).
She is 12 now and just about to start writing her own name but she has not enough power in her hands to hold the pen long enough. Ever since she entered the educational system it has been a nightmare for my mum and also us.
They want to lock her up in a psychiatry, they don't care about her as an individual or all her amazing abilities. It's a constant fight of keeping her since teachers and caretakers can't or don't want to cope with her. Once a teaching assistant even told my mum that she doesn't know how difficult her own daughter is. So ironic considering that she is the one coping for 12 years now.
Being different turned her into an outsider, beaten up and left alone by everyone. This picture represents quite well her position within the school, left alone next to her class.. and what I see, an angel.
Specifically, this research was really depressing. Talking to the customer they all seemed to experience quite similar things. Exclusion has been a big part of their past but also daily life. They don't want to understand why humans are like this, it almost seems like they accepted it and now try to live their life surrounded by their small circle of family and friends. I decided to include this research in my work even though the customer is really aware of exclusion in Germany. The aim is to use a little bit of personal experience to bond with the customer so that they would share their own experiences.
From today on I will interview as many customers as possible to gather some personal experiences with exclusion within society and their own families. Even though we all have quite good relationships with our families I found that there are a lot of unprocessed things going on between my parents and their parents.
To me, this is the most absurd thing you could possibly do. We are growing up in a community of values and solidarity, so why can we not be all together and learn from each other? Studies have shown that we are all capable of more than expected from us so excluding us from the "normal rest" just causes misperceptions on both sides, lowers self-esteem and is pretty much the opposite of Integration.
When I thought about my families position in our environment (not friends& family) the first word that came to my mind was exclusion.
The girl in the picture is my sister. She almost died at her birth, the doctors were close to accidentally breaking her neck (and never told us about it).She is 12 now and just about to start writing her own name but she has not enough power in her hands to hold the pen long enough. Ever since she entered the educational system it has been a nightmare for my mum and also us.
They want to lock her up in a psychiatry, they don't care about her as an individual or all her amazing abilities. It's a constant fight of keeping her since teachers and caretakers can't or don't want to cope with her. Once a teaching assistant even told my mum that she doesn't know how difficult her own daughter is. So ironic considering that she is the one coping for 12 years now.
Being different turned her into an outsider, beaten up and left alone by everyone. This picture represents quite well her position within the school, left alone next to her class.. and what I see, an angel.
Specifically, this research was really depressing. Talking to the customer they all seemed to experience quite similar things. Exclusion has been a big part of their past but also daily life. They don't want to understand why humans are like this, it almost seems like they accepted it and now try to live their life surrounded by their small circle of family and friends. I decided to include this research in my work even though the customer is really aware of exclusion in Germany. The aim is to use a little bit of personal experience to bond with the customer so that they would share their own experiences.
From today on I will interview as many customers as possible to gather some personal experiences with exclusion within society and their own families. Even though we all have quite good relationships with our families I found that there are a lot of unprocessed things going on between my parents and their parents.
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