Our ADHD support group used to feel like a lifeline but now it's become this weird competition about whose kid is doing better and whose interventions are working, and my partner and I both dread going even though we desperately need the connection. We don't know if we should try to address it or just find a new community.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parents are grappling with how to preserve necessary community connection when the very space meant to support them has become a source of judgment and comparison.
“Where Are You with Parenting a child with disability or neurodivergence?”
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