I think to though the people who say its a joke etc etc or say demeaning things to people who have it, are just preying on who they perceive to be weak. Granted this not the case for everyone but some people who do it, do it to make themselves feel better. It is one of those things you just cannot explain to people to get them to understand unless they could live in your shoes for a day.

I remember my phlebotomy teacher was talking about her son in class to some of my classmates. He is in elementary school but right now, but I guess he is falling behind or they had him take some tests I suppose and he did really poor on the easy questions but as the test questions got harder he answered questions that kids normally are not able to answer. So they mentioned to her he may have add and wanted her to have him get more testing etc etc. But this was just after a shooting at school, and she said that she did not want her son to receive any mental health treatment, be put on medication and shoved in the back corner of the room and forgotten about. Also she did not say it during the same day, but prior to that she was saying some stuff to after the shooting people who are on any kind of medication for mental issues should not be allowed to own fire arms etc etc. should be under a closer eye. Man it was getting me fired up. I wanted to say something so bad, it took everything I had not to because to me that is a close minded and naive way to think. One of my fellow class mates was like she is not talking about you, but its like if she thinks people receiving medication should be watched more, how come she was letting me go around in her class poking people with needles to draw there blood, I could of used it as a weapon or something. Not that I would just saying she should of been scared of me from what she was saying. I had mentioned my adhd to her because we had to do a drug screen and I had never done while taking adderall before so I asked if she ever had any students who had dealt with it in the past and if there was anything special they had to do. She knew I had something while still holding these conversations. I even did mention a couple times though to them while holding one of them, that I am on medication for a mental health condition. There reply is I am different. really lol! How am I different after listening to all you said. They just latch on get negative images of mental health patients no matter what or who they and what they have dealt with in there life. The cases they see on tv are the most extreme cases. Not all people can be lumped together like that.

Alright off my soap box, I went way off to much on a tangent.