I’m sure you have heard all about disorders. Your child has probably been “diagnosed” with at least one of them. I’m not a great fan of the DSM “disorders” because they don’t tell you anything you didn’t know before and contrary to popular belief they do NOT prescribe treatment. (That’s a big difference between a medical diagnosis and a psychological or psychiatric diagnosis. A medical diagnosis is prescriptive; a psychological/psychiatric diagnosis is descriptive, NOT prescriptive.)
However, there is a newish disorder that I have personally discovered, and it is not mentioned in DSM 5. It’s one that has pervasive negative effects. It is easily avoidable. There is no medication for it. I suspect, will there ever be, for one isn’t required. No.
Pronoun Disorder can be self-corrected, and you can get rid of it yourself. Pronoun disorder is when you use an incorrect pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, they).
Pronoun Disorder is fostered by schools, therapists, advice-givers, advertising, even by colleges and universities. Pronoun Disorder is simply when, as a parent, you use the pronoun “we” instead of “he” or “she” or “you” or you say “I” when, in fact, you are not the one who is doing the doing…whatever it is.
Here are some examples: “I am moving my daughter into college next week.” “We are taking the SATs again next month.” “We have a term paper due before Christmas.” “We need to take our medicine.”
Schools are very much at fault for creating some of the first stages of the disorder. It happens when schools involve parents in their children’s homework. This is certainly the case when kindergartners are given homework. I mean, really, how are five-year-olds ever going to be able to manage doing homework on their own (that’s why kindergartners shouldn’t be given homework!)? So when little kids are given tasks that they cannot accomplish, Mom and/or Dad are brought in and, in fact, the assignment is completed by us instead of by him or her.
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