This is very interesting. Iâm wondering though, if these brain differences would show up across the board for survivors of different kinds of childhood trauma, not just children of addicts. A lot of the differences they noted seem to me to be the same as typical PTSD neurological differences.
@Ninjastar A good question . All I know is that the problems that stem from having a parent who has a drink problem donât magically stop when you reach adulthood .
Thatâs true about so many things. We tend to cut children a lot of slack for displaying symptoms of learning disabilities or trauma or mental illness. But the second they turn 18, itâs like all that patience goes out he window.
True - itâs the same with being on the autism spectrum . As for what we call âlearning difficultiesâ in the UK: I wonder how many middle aged/late middle aged people like me there are i.e. if a child nowadays would be flagged for help . However back then in 60âs and 70âs if you were reasonably intelligent , or above , it was very rarely recognised you had such a problem . There must be quite a few of us that flew and continue to fly under the radar .
I was very fortunate that the educational climate started shifting when I was in high school. In 9th grade a teacher finally referred me to OT for my illegible handwriting. All my previous teachers just punished me for not writing neatly.
The OT figured out I had never learned how to properly hold a pencil, because I taught myself to write at age 2. So in kindergarten, when everyone else was learning proper form, nobody paid attention to me because I was writing about as well as the other kids on my own. But as I got older, my handwriting didnât improve because I was still holding a pencil like a 2 year old. A few months of OT and I figured it out. But if my one teacher hadnât finally noticed I had a real problem besides being âtoo lazy to write properlyâ I never would have learned.
In my case, to be fair, the handwriting thing was picked up on though not linked to there being a wider problem . I had handwriting lessons at age 11-12. My handwriting now is crudely formed, but I think,for the most part, legible .
Iâm a slow writer though . The quality deteriorates a lot if I try to write faster . I imagine something like that could be quite a problem for a person taking notes at college/university .
This study raises the problem of codependency and the influence of an addict parent on the family system. Same thing about human relations in general : our state of mind is influenced by others without our control and consciousness. It remembers me a coach who told me" Itâs you and you", alledging I was not determined by my environment. I felt this assertion completely false
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