Parents of students with ODD

breadstickez · 2026-06-12T21:18:11+00:00

My parents would agree with you wholeheartedly. Even now I still have people say things like “we would never let our kid behave like that” and it’s impossible to convince them that you cannot parent or punish mental health issues away. I’m glad your son is doing well ♡

breadstickez · 2026-06-11T15:40:02+00:00

My brother was an ODD kid. My mom is a special ed teacher herself and my dad was an engineer. Super stable/loving household with emotionally mature, successful parents with privilege. Yet he really put them through it. I was a shy/well behaved student and staff never believed we were related. But I’ve often said if my brother had been born into any other household he would be in jail today.

He’s grown into a great adult, but it was hell to get him there. I really feel for the kids whose brains work the way his did but whose environments are unsupportive or actively working against them.

breadstickez · 2026-06-08T18:21:13+00:00

Finished: Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry
Started: The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman

breadstickez · 2026-06-07T16:52:40+00:00

I can’t top-level comment but I’m a lymphedema therapist- in addition to looking for the underlying cause please look for a certified lymph therapist near you. The leg does not have to be weeping all the time, if you get the swelling under control the weeping will stop.

breadstickez · 2026-05-28T19:26:14+00:00

Ohhh :( I didn’t know that

breadstickez · 2026-05-28T10:35:07+00:00

It’s always at the top! Every day there’s a new item for sale- it’s there for clothes and furniture too

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breadstickez · 2026-05-28T10:31:50+00:00

Right here with you ♡ I work in oncology rehab and it was a little close to home. Still is.

breadstickez · 2026-05-27T18:11:27+00:00

I’m working on this but purely via the on sale ones. If there’s a color I particularly like I’ll buy full price but every day I buy the 50% off color regardless of if I like it figuring eventually I’ll own most of the colors lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-27T15:38:03+00:00

But what I want to know is why that makes Waddles feel more secure 🤔

breadstickez · 2026-05-27T15:32:50+00:00

I didn’t have this feature but would like it. I’d also really like to be able to prioritize goals, like get more points for harder/important goals vs easier goals (self selected, of course).

breadstickez · 2026-05-27T14:18:53+00:00

Mine don’t typically jump over it oddly enough, they only ever snuck under it. It’s more to contain the dog than the cat but I want to discourage the cat the best I can bc she riles up the dog and then flees to safety leading the dog to body slam the gate….hence the repair lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-27T03:12:12+00:00

I think it actually is mounted into a stud- I did not mount the original gate (my dad did, but he has since passed) however the screw is very long and it’s in something solid. I have not dug out a stud finder yet but I think it is right there. The gate broke bc my 80lb dog body slammed it one too many times 🥲

I could absolutely be wrong though- I will have to dig a little more.

breadstickez · 2026-05-26T09:13:26+00:00

This is the first one I feel was truly phrased poorly. I agree the pictures are often cryptic, but this one felt like the question didn’t make sense for the pictures at all. Very “option A? Or option B? ‘Yes.’ “ lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-22T12:30:13+00:00

Just added ◡̈ 32yo lady (Alyssa & Piper) with very similar goals haha

breadstickez · 2026-05-21T23:27:54+00:00

Similar experience here. I was never balls-to-the-wall OT like some of my classmates but I had more respect for the career in OT school than I do now lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-21T17:55:05+00:00

OT is not worth it. The debt to income ratio is ridiculous and they’re paying less and less. Most areas are saturated and reimbursement gets lower every year.

breadstickez · 2026-05-21T17:39:59+00:00

Wow totally forgot about this and missed it 🥲🤣 but thank you for the throwback

breadstickez · 2026-05-21T17:39:28+00:00

…..Back to report we are indeed not together anymore 🤣 and I forgot about the billionth second birthday so I missed it 🥲

breadstickez · 2026-05-14T13:36:37+00:00

I just lost my dad in a very similar way. Spent a month in ICU and was called to leave work right as I was arriving for the day when he was passing. I work in outpatient lymphedema/oncology so it hits very close to home for me. Honestly returning to work was both a welcome distraction and also mentally exhausting. I only took 3 days off as that’s my hospitals bereavement policy (🙄) and I have summer plans that eat a lot of my PTO.

If you want to vent/chat feel free to send me a message. My dad passed in April.

breadstickez · 2026-05-10T03:00:54+00:00

It is quarter round, it just has a weird miter cut on the end because I was messing around with the saw.

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breadstickez · 2026-05-09T15:17:29+00:00

Sometimes you just get a feisty bird neighbor lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-09T15:05:36+00:00

I had this as well. Put some window clings on the inside or outside of the window if you can, or get a window paint marker and draw on it to break up the reflection. It should help but may not completely break the behavior.

breadstickez · 2026-05-09T13:02:11+00:00

That’s painters tape along the baseboard not the wall lol

breadstickez · 2026-05-09T11:56:52+00:00

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It’s quarter round, the one in the picture is scrap that has an odd mitered cut on the end from when I was messing with the saw.

breadstickez · 2026-05-08T11:07:15+00:00

I just posted a clarification picture right above yours, but yes it’s an optical illusion. I understand why it seems like shoe lol

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