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There are a number of narratives within Odd Kid Out; the following story synopses are provided to help focus discussion and questions.

1. Mother on a mission, a journey of discovery.

This story focuses on a mother’s drive to find a solution to her son’s ADHD diagnosis. The journey will take us to various doctors, holistic healers and new age medical practitioners. While Karen is trying to find someone to help her son, Kail is coping with the pressures of being “different”. Interestingly, they learn along the way that the very thing causing him such stress is also his most redeeming feature. Karen and Kail come to embrace his ‘difference’ and celebrate his strengths.

2. A diabetic father tries to get his son through a year of high school.

Daniel is a sixteen year old boy with a double diagnosis. He has Tourette Syndrome and he also has been diagnosed with ADHD. He is being raised by his father who has advanced diabetes. At the age of nine, Daniel discovered his mother’s body when she passed away suddenly, and he and his father Roger have been on their own ever since. His father’s wish is to get Daniel through a year of high school, but Roger’s health is failing and he may have to have his leg amputated. If Roger has to undergo rehabilitation in hospital, he worries that Daniel will be too much to handle.

3. A family copes with their ADHD child and struggles with the decision to place their child on Ritalin.

This story is about how a family copes with an ADHD diagnosed child. The scenes focus on the strain that raising a child like Sarah puts on a family. The things we take for granted, like going to a restaurant or spending close time with a child to create a parent-child bond, turn into stressful or even impossible experiences for the family. The family now struggles with the decision to put Sarah on the sometimes controversial drug, Ritalin. How will this family cope? Will the marital relationship survive?

For further information, please contact:

Karen O'Donnell
contact@oddkidout.com