I am new here I have a six year old diagnosed with ADHD.
I am struggling with dealing with other parents on this issue.
I enrolled my child in girl scouts this past year. One of the moms in the troop had a specific problem with my child being hyper at one of the Girl Scout events. I had accompanied by daughter to this event and did not witness any seriously wrongful behavior - she just got a little out of control, talked back at one point, and kept jumping up and down uncontrollably. This mom then tried to get my daughter removed from Scouts by complaining to the GS Council. The Council did not remove my daughter, they simply asked her to sit out the next event, which we graciously complied with. However, the complaining mom was so incensed, she felt my daughter should have been punished more harshly, so she reacted to this by removing herself from our FB troop page and stopped attending troop events (so her and her child wouldn't have to be around my daughter). I guess she got over it, and then after a few weeks, put herself back on the troop page. I didn't ask any questions, but thought it was strange. She deliberately avoids me now.
Ever since then, her and another mom in the troop have acted strange around me. One of them, a mom I had been on friendly terms with before this incident, now acts weird around me and even stutters when she talks to me now. She told me the other day "Um, I won't be in your troop next year, because I am, um, having my child join, um, a different troop". I am not sure why she told me this because A) I never asked and B) I don't care. My daughter has no particular interest in her daughter, and its certainly not something we even cared to know about.
The "incident" where my daughter misbehaved was months ago but it seems to have followed us like a black cloud that won't go away.
Sometimes, when she does things like run around in circles, there are a few parents who find it intolerable even though it doesn't really affect them. I explain that she has ADHD and therefore, an abundance of energy; she's also impulsive and blurts things out sometimes. She has never hurt or bullied another child. She is not capable of that.
I'd be curious to know if any other parents of children with ADHD have had similar issues with other parents.