Twenty years ago, I was a single mother who had two sons with ADHD. I wanted to start a support group for families like mine in Chicago.
When I contacted the leader of a nearby suburban support group to ask how to go about it, she suggested I shouldn’t bother. She felt I should join her group instead.
The reason? Urban children didn’t have ADHD. They had “behavior problems.” Yes, that was code. Black children didn’t have ADHD.
They were just bad.Other Black parents have scolded my parenting. They wouldn’t medicate their children! Medication secretly causes genocide.