This Post is dedicated to my mother.
My mum is amazing in a very odd way. Let me explain a little about her. She is, and excuse the way I put this, into spiritualist mumbo jumbo
As far as I can work out this involves looking at pictures on cards, reading ribbons and I suspect chanting and speaking in tongues. Not that I’m a sceptic! Its her life and I’m very proud of what she does. In fact it makes great conversation at work, particularly during a recent “lost wallet” incident when I asked my mother to ask her friends where it was. They came back with the response that it was in the glove box.
Unfortunately I was pretty stressed and my reply was a little short, about not having been near any f***ing glove box. Needless to say I checked every vehicle I had been in and even decided to try to decode it, deciding it could have meant that my wallet was where I keep the gloves. It wasn’t.
I think those psychics were just having a good laugh at me running around. As it turned out the dog had taken it outside.
My description of what my mother does is, she chants around a cauldron, complete with a pointy hat a black cat, a couple of eyeballs and frogs legs, or my personal favorite, (because people’s reactions are great) is to whisper to them “my mum hears voices, she knows everything about you.”
Its great fun.
Perhaps Katie managing to wind me up so perfectly is some form of spiritualists revenge – apparently what mum does is actually none of the above.
Anyway, my mother is well credited by many people and has a lot of followers, for want of a better word. She is popular in the psychic world….apparently with the dead as well as the living.
Getting to the point….My mother was there when Katie was born and was the first person to hold her. They have an amazing connection and get on very well together. I broached the issue of PDA with her and told her that I thought Katie is a little different. It was, and still is, a difficult thing to talk about with her, and has led to family disagreements.
To my mother Katie is a very spiritually enlightened child and my mum believes that when behaving the way she does, Katie is simply channeling other energy’s though herself and picking up on many other things from the universe. This is all very well, but to me doesn’t change the fact that when in a restaurant, she should perhaps be able to manage sitting on a seat and not behave the way she does. Nor does it change the fact that when Katie is refusing to leave a shop, and on the edge of destroying an entire display, that I can excuse it as her simply being spiritual. That is, of course, unless spiritual voices are making her demand I buy her a brand new cabin bed now, or that she be allowed to crawl under the shelves.
This will always be my mother’s opinion and that’s fine, but it has caused frictions, until a break-though the other day. Calmly talking it though with the mother, she admits Katie is different but she does not want her labelled as an enlightened, spiritual child or as a child with PDA. After a long chat I managed to get across the reasons that acknowledging her PDA would actually help Katie. I reassured her that I don’t just want to drug her up, and listened to my mum’s point of view about how she inherited her gift from her great-gran.
After discussing everything and talking about diagnostic criteria, my mother brought a book round called theIndigo Children. From what I can gather it covers symptoms like PDA, ADD and ADHD. Whilst chatting I told my mother its fine for her, or anyone who wants to, to think of Katie as an indigo child, but asked that if I go to the health professionals or the School, she shouldn’t leap though the doors and proclaim that Katie is an Indigo Child, that she behaves the way she does because she is a prophet and spiritually enlightened and that we should listen to her because she is channelling energy’s though the cosmos. If she did that, I might find myself with a one way ticket to the hospital with some lovely tablets and a white jacket. I suggested that perhaps it would be much better to go for PDA as a diagnosis?
I don’t think the Indigo Children book is for me, but may help others out there. The book has different strategies for coping and other techniques. I haven’t read it all, just skim read, but will read a little more, just to have explored everything. Actually, I have to admit that some of it is pretty interesting, and seems to talk about ADD and ADHD. If anyone else has read the book and has any opinions on it, or Indigo children, let me know.
Further info…
My Mothers contact number (in case anyone is interested) is 07564286205
I will wait for the phone call when she reads this post! <Gulp> lol
Right. Enough of cauldrons, cards, ribbons and people hearing voices, better get on. Back to Katie on my next blog. She has been away for a few days with my mum, so some house work has been completed in between working 12 hour shifts.
Thanks for having Katie, mum. You’re the best.
Jess x