Loved ones aren’t in the position to diagnose each other, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith – but perhaps raise the general idea of different mental experiences
Loved ones aren’t in the position to diagnose each other, writes advice columnist‘I think it’s very sensitive of you to see the footprints your mother’s school treatment might have left on her self-esteem.’ Painting – Vittorio Alfieri and the Countess of Albany Luisa Stolberg, 1796, by Francois Xavier Pascal Fabre.‘I think it’s very sensitive of you to see the footprints your mother’s school treatment might have left on her self-esteem.
I think it’s very sensitive of you to see the footprints your mother’s school treatment might have left on her self-esteem: the punishments and labels of classrooms can long outlive the people who doled them out. But neither you or I are in a position to speculate as to whether she has a learning disability – we can only wonder about whether it would be useful to be professionally assessed.
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