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@aegisheart The system is indeed rigid and very classist. Just the fact that kids are tracked in the 4th grade is horrifying to me. I deliberately did not send my sensitive, temperamental older child to "Gymnasium" for this and other reasons. The elitism is around class and ethnicity here; in...

@aegisheart Forgot to add (and can't find my post to edit it now, lol adhd gifted autistic): While I was the active, temperamental, verbal, off the charts kid my son, almost 10, was the peaceful and mellow kid in the corner doing advanced puzzles for fun. He's quiet and easygoing (his big...

@aegisheart Thanks! Glad to be helpful. I wish people had simply taught me about feelings. My mom modeled fake happiness (it was California, after all) and explosive anger. My feelings are so intense that I'm only now learning how to figure out what the tsunami in me is. My son sometimes gets...

@aegisheart This was me I was only diagnosed as autistic last year at age 48. I was diagnosed with ADHD at ages 4, 28, and again last year at age 48. I'm finally on ADHD medication and finally able to regulate my emotions for the first time in my life. I was subjected to numerous tests in...

@silentjohn My kids loved preschool. It's normal here in Europe and subsidized. After most people's parental leave ends, and both parents are working again, 1-3 year olds join a nursery, then preschool from ages 3-6. 6-8 hours a day is normal. Every preschool does a long adjustment period. The...

@silentjohn This is not the case here in Germany and especially in the former "socialist " East where Universal pre-school education was "free as water" to quote a colleague who grew up there. Our groups are small (12 kids was considered "big" for 3-6 yo) and the teachers have I think 2 years...