Sasha Hamdani
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But I also think I'd have thought about this a ton since I'm a parent now.
How would I have handled that differently?
In that time, it was so stigmatized.
There was a kid who had ADHD a couple grades above me in that private school.
And that kid got expelled for putting fireworks in a toilet.
And they were like, this kid is nothing.
And he's broke.
We don't know what to do with him.
He can't be at school anymore.
And all the room parents were talking about it.
I was just very highly aware of this.
And then I was also the only brown kid in this sea of white children.
I already felt weird.
So I think my parents probably were doing at that point what they thought was the best.
They were trying to intervene.
You're not wrong.
They redeemed themselves big because I'll tell you what they did that was correct.
So after that, so I'm like, yeah, I don't know where my vitamin is.
And they're like, okay, heads up.