A Mental Deficiency

To set goals is a challenge in itself especially if one has a mental deficiency. But not all people chose to achieve their goals fairly or use the manipulation to achieve them. People with a mental deficiency who cheat, use others own feelings against them such as pity or empathy to get what they want when they want. This I believe is wrong.

Back before WWII or so most people who didn’t fully understand or know at all would label anyone who wouldn’t act normally: meaning any adult, teenager, or child would be labeled as: outcasts, troublemakers, criminals, or just crazy and should be ignored. Some people would even be cruel to their own children. Even after the war, most doctors didn’t believe that kids and teens could have mental deficiencies such as A.D.D., A.D.H.D., or Bipolar Disorder or any combination of the three because doctors only had proof that adults could develop them. Because of this, children such as my mom suffered throughout her life being an outcast among her peers at school and teachers. She was diagnosed Bipolar after she graduated college.

Today there are treatments for these three disorders varying from medication to therapy. But there were still people out there who still don’t understand these disorders and may be aggressive and unwilling to listen or learn about them such as: when I was about nine or ten years old I had a friend named Jonathan and we were good friends. But when I mentioned to his mom that I had A.D.H.D. and Bipolar Disorder she began to treat me as if I was some kind animal or freak, and soon forbade me from ever seeing Jonathan again. Which shocked my system and threw me into a great depression and made me feel like an outcast.

But thanks to the support of family, I broke my depression and haven’t gone back since. Once I finally got over the loss of my friend, I realized that I wasn’t a freak, or an outcast but a kid with a challenge to overcome. So I began to set goals and find friends who would that would accept me for who I was. Today instead of lagging behind, I’m in advanced classed and setting a better standard for myself and my future career. But not everyone uses their deficiencies for the better.

Recently I have seen others use their mental deficiencies such as the three I have discussed as excuses for unacceptable behavior and some even benefit from it, which is a deficiency all its own. This makes people, like me and my mom, look bad and disrespects other who live with these deficiencies. The world would benefit if everyone could understand that some mental deficiencies are minor and can be overcome easily. So World, take action and responsibility were its due and decide whether or not you want to be the victim or the victor, this I believe.