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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ravensmitten" data-source="post: 2681837" data-attributes="member: 566099">Thank you [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] for that reply, as I say I will do get her tested if not for her getting years down the line and having problems and no one recognising when she was a child as I'm sure that makes it far more difficult if you seek a diagnosis yourself later on. If that is something that she thinks will be helpful to her.And for your friend to read that over, thank you. At risk of coming across rude and I appreciate the sentiment, my biased views differ on that.I can't speak for my daughter, as she's her own person and wouldn't like to project my own feelings about the subject and attribute them to her or anyone else for that matter. The label didn't help me much in a few ways, and also because I am a 'strange' horse and I found it more beneficial to admit such a thing, whether, horse or zebra, I'm in a horses world, and the horses system is what we live by, with all the horses expectations, and all the horsey things, so for me it didn't really make a difference in a positive way, the story remained the same.In fact when I did I realise and accept that, I found ALL horses were strange in various degrees rather than failed ones, we are all horses, flawed, imperfect and that's okay, sometimes it isn't. I could process that and find ways to be the best horse I could within my own abilities, and learn new skills to manage them. Find me a horse who hasn't got any foibles or feels like a failed horse now and again and I'll wear a zebra suit on the school run, I probably doesn't need saying and don't have to teach my granny to suck eggs in saying that some horses are affected by this far more seriously than others, but I'll include that for completism.I found my own bunch of strange horses naturally, as my daughter has in her friend group, so that doesn't ring true at all for me and I'd be hesitant to teach this this myself personally, seems like othering a little, we are all the same but different. but maybe I'm off with my reading of that.Saying this if someone is happy a zebra then so be it, who am I to say what makes someone happy in themselves.</blockquote>

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