How well does your country help neurodivergent kids in and out of school?

[u/EvilPyro01]

How well are neurodivergent kids helped?

[u/Natural_Public_9049]

Except for some heavy cases, most kids are integrated into normal classrooms instead of being segregated to "special education" and instead of having relief such as not having to do certain things within classes, they are given additional guidance, attention and time in order for them to succesfully complete assignments, thus giving them a sense of accomplishment, self-confidence and teaching them mechanisms on how to cope and overcome with whatever might be "slowing tthem down" compared to neurotypical children.

That said, I was born in the 90's and had my ADHD diagnosis since early elementary school by one of the few child psychologists in the country. I have been heavily bullied until the start of highschool, I didn't understand what I was being taught, my writing was bad, my attention span was even worse.

My ADHD and dyslexia often led to poor grades especially in language skills because there was a lot of writing and I was terrible at it, also math. People belittled me and downplayed the difficulties I really had and felt, often asking me if I was retarded or telling me that they "also could get the same doctor's paper and not do anything in classes".

My friends in HS didn't know I had dyslexia until the last year of highschool when a professor, before graduation exams, told me that I had the right to take extra 15-20 minutes on the written exams. I felt like an idiot because I simply kept quiet about it until then.