Må jeg være med?

Nielsen, Sanni

4. semester

Socialt Arbejde, Kandidat

2016

2016-08-12

98 pages

Dette speciale undersøger, hvorvidt unge med en ADHD-diagnose oplever stigmatisering i deres sociale relationer på grund af deres diagnose. Dette undersøges gennem kvalitative interviews med unge i alderen 11 - 14 år. Der tages udgangspunkt i de unges egen forståelse og fortolkning af deres ADHD-diagnose som hovedsageligt er baseret på en biologisk orienteret tilgang. Derudover forstår de unge specielt deres diagnose ud fra de vanskeligheder som de oplever i deres hverdag. Her er der tale om koncentrationsbesvær, problemer med opgaveløsning og problemer med at styre deres temperament. De vanskeligheder som de unge oplever i deres hverdag har også medført, at de oplever at blive mobbet og set skævt til af deres jævnaldrende i skolen. Selvom de unge ikke selv anvender termen stigmatisering, så oplever de følelsen af at blive miskrediteret på baggrund af de vanskeligheder som de selv tillægger som en del af deres diagnose. Men også selve diagnosen oplever de unge som en stigmatiserende faktor, da de beskriver, at de ikke ønsker at fortælle andre om diagnosen, da de frygter at vedkommende vil tænke negativt om dem og tillægge dem negative egenskaber som de ikke selv føler de besidder. Der er altså tale om, at både de vanskeligheder som de unge oplever samt selve diagnosen danner grundlag for, at de unge oplever stigmatisering.

This study has examined how teenagers diagnosed with Attention Deficit hyperactivity disorder experience their social relation with particular focus to weather or not the teenager are subjects of stigmatization due to their diagnosis. The study is based on qualitative interviews with teenagers in the age of eleven to fourteen years. The teenagers have a biological orientated understanding of the diagnosis and sees the disorder as a kind of malfunction in the brain, which they see as the reason why they experience difficulties such as problems with impulse control, anger issues and problems with concentration. As a result of these difficulties the teenagers sees them selves as being different or weird and feel like their peers look at them in a negative light. The teenagers are being bullied because of this and therefore it is argued that the teenagers are being stigmatized on the basis of these difficulties. But the teenagers also feels stigmatized by the diagnosis it self. They describe that they don’t want to tell people about their diagnosis because they are afraid that people will ascribe them negative qualities. Therefore that both the difficulties and the diagnosis it self is the base of stigmatization for the teenagers.

ADHD ; Stigmatisering ; Børneperspektiv ; Goffman

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