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Executive Function Disorder
Having the impact of learning new ways to think to understand someone who has executive function disorder, this disorder is described as the cognitive processes that govern most of what your child does on a daily basis being impacted, it is hard for me to stand by and watch as my sister is a victim of personal trouble vs. public or structural issues: personal problems that happen in a patterned way to a large number of individuals end up being public issues or consequences of social structures, making rational decisions (Rational Choice Theory): the self-interests of individuals, struggling in school (Dependent/Independent Variables): the effects of one thing on another and the effects of her inability to interaction with others without making a situation uncomfortable (Symbolic Interactionist Theory): face-to-face interactions that make up social life.
Her personal struggles versing the public is shown throughout her middle school career, she spends every day in middle school trying to make friends, this task is hard for her because she does not mentally function at the same pace or level as those in the same grade as her. She can sometimes act at a very immature level and it can be off-putting to others around her. The students my sister has chosen to be friends with influences the way she acts at home and the new behaviors she begins to show. There was a year she had a friend we had thought was going to be a good influence, little did we know that my sister was learning very inappropriate words that should never come out of a thirteen year olds mouth. This situation was a good example of personal troubles vs. public or structural issues, the people she associated herself with influenced the way she behaved and what she believed was right or wrong. Another example of this concept is the state of my sister being bullied at school and the way they handle the situation even though they say that they are trying to gain control of bullying in the school

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