If Gillian Lynn was 8 years old in the year of 2011, there
would have been a very different outcome to the situation that she was in if it
was in the 1930’s. Her point of view
would be very different considering the external influences of the modern era.
I am
very worried about Gillian right now, she’s always so fidgety, and she just
can’t stay still; her teachers have been calling me about her grades and her
tardiness in homework. I think I should
bring her to a specialist to see what is going on, and to see if it’s possible
to fix this situation. On the car ride
over she was always looking around, pointing at random objects, never sitting
still and it honestly started to get on my nerves
We
brought her to a specialist that can help us diagnose what is wrong with her,
in my mind I was hoping it was nothing serious, I hoped that it was something
that she could just grow out of. The
specialist asked me many questions like her eating habits, study habits, and
many other things that I honestly could not remember because they were so
defined and specific. That session was
probably the longest hour of my life because during that time, I could only
think about the “what ifs,” like I really hoped she didn’t have a learning
disability or something along the lines of that. The specialist then started to ask her
questions like, how she was doing, how was school, pretty simple questions
honestly. What scared me the most was
what came after, the psychiatrist told me that Gillian had ADHD, a hyperactive
learning disorder that doesn’t allow the person to pay attention, and makes
him/her very fidgety. I was told that
there wasn’t a cure to this disease but there are ways to suppress this sort of
disorder; Ritalin was the answer. He
gave me some samples of Ritalin to see if anything worked to suppress Gillian’s
symptoms, he told me to call back in a week to see the results.
A week
has passed by, and I have seen no improvement in her condition, I called back
to see if there was another route that we could take to help her. He said that there was another way but, it
would be very pricey; sending her to an institution for about a month. I was shocked at what he told me but there
was a special institution that helps to suppress the symptoms of ADHD. I had a
lot of thinking to do so I went back home to see what the right approach we
should take was; we decided to take the psychiatrist’s advice. The week we decided to bring her there, we
left her in that institution, when we parted, that was the most painful thing I
had to experience.
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