I'm a not-so-rebellious-but-occasionally-rebellious teen, so this is interesting.
"all ADHD-diagnosed children will pay attention to activities that they enjoy or that they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids are having a good time and in control, the "disease" goes away."
Sounds like me... except I've never been diagnosed or even questioned about ADHD, the closest is the time my mom pitched the idea of therapy to me after she found out I was avoiding my school work and I tried to explain how I'm not just lazy but I have a serious aversion to some of the work. This is all a
very serious problem for me, actually, in that not only do my grades suffer, but my relationship with my parents has also been taxed over the issue of schoolwork, motivation, and so forth. We can all agree that when given an assignment I enjoy and relate to and respect, I do a fantastic job.
I'm not even sure if I believe its a real disorder, but that describes my behaviour very well. My "rebellion" is indeed very passive agressive, and is mostly done in the form of not doing some of my schoolwork that I do not find interesting or see any merit in doing from an educational standpoint. This isn't concious rebellion, or concious at all, its just soemthing I tend to do that I suppose could be identified as rebellion. All my favourite teachers have been the ones that went against the grain and taught in an alternative style that delivered the same information in ways that clicked into my mind like floodwater through a maze... just rushing in through the cracks with no delays.
Speaking of which, we discussed this in Law class (with an awesome ENFP teacher!), and one case involved a 13 year old girl who murdered her parents for being strict. She obviously had serious problems (plus she wanted to date a man who was like 25 or soemthing). The teacher mentioned ODD, and said he thought it was absurd when he heard about it. His exact words were "ODD? Isn't that called being a normal teenager?". He then talked about how he thought the idea of normalcy in society is far narrower than actual psychological health would have it.
Throughout my life I have protested several things in school, upright and only in my mind. I once yelled at the teacher over math class in like grade seven because I thought it was a compelte waste of time to learn algebra (I stand by it to this day) and more recently I've been whole heartedly against my english class and especially Shakespeare.
"but I try to critically think through things. However, if I had gone to public school, I imagine I would have gone crazy from it all."-
OwarinoTenshi
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I always try to think critically and understand why I feel that way about some things. I really wish I had more freedom and independance... I'm a big fan of independant learning, and school is suffocating because it lacks that.
I'm not sure what my point is. On one hand, I think I relate and fit many of these "symptoms", but I really think there is nothing wrong with me and I just work better in specific environments, and unfourtunately I am rarely exposed to them. I don't consider myself rebellious for the most part, and I tend to get along well with adults and authority and they seem to enjoy me, but I can relate to a lot of this, except I havn't been put on medication.
This reminds me of the saying "most insane people do not believe they are insane"... because maybe they arn't.