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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Here at the beginning... |
| mamabear78 |
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Posted: 17 Mar 2014, 10:10 am
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| I appreciate your honesty and the responses you've gotten are great. I completely understand you on the part about how your son has been punished his entire life by you not realizing he had some of these issues. I feel the same way. I've just recently realized that when he's pleading with me in tear... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2014, 3:12 pm
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| There are Word Girl episode (PBS Kids) with the villain, Nocan the Contrarian. One of them (I forget which one --has the kids celebrating Opposites Day, and I remember it showing how it is funny when you get it, and not so funny to people who don't know "the game" is going on. Thank you...I just re... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2014, 2:59 pm
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| I haven't read everything. Need to state that up front. My son has ADHD, NLD, and SPD. Many things you say sound similar, except that my son has a very laid back temperament and the only time he really has outbursts at all is when he is overwhelmed or over tired. Anyway, I personally think that thi... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2014, 3:39 pm
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| My son does things like this. He goes on his "opposites" tangents. I usually go along with it, because I realize that is how he is trying to draw me into his world. But it is a good opportunity for a teaching moment too. If he does this to someone else who doesn't understand his intention, I might ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2014, 1:02 pm
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| Thank you guys. I'm going to read the stickies when I have a sec. I truly appreciate the feedback and help. I think this will be my go to resource in that it just sounds more like my son in the realm of many of his behaviors. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2014, 8:57 am
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| Thank you all. I'm starting to understand more. I'm now going to need to get some of the books on parenting. As mentioned above my fear is that I do get upset by behavior that I find to be offensive when I think my DS can't really help it. I need to take a step back, research and try to better under... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 9:05 pm
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| It is a spectrum, so he could be on the very mild side, or he could have "traits" but they could maybe not be clinically significant. Being literal is a communication aspect of autism. Do other people have issues with being too literal? I would guess so. What do you mean by not clinically significa... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 8:47 pm
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| Do you guys ever hear or read about people who have more asperger-type brains (thinking, logic, patterns) and communication skills, yet are not necessarily aspergers socially? Or from everything I've described does it sound more like a child who has ADHD? I was just talking to my son and he's so lit... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 8:18 pm
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| I briefly looked through that first article link you posted. I'm going to print out the entire thing to be able to read it all. Thank you so much. It looks like awesome information. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 7:54 pm
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| If you begin treating for ADHD, and continue to see pronounced social deficits that are impacting your son's ability to make friends or function effectively in school, then it may be worth trying for a second opinion. Thank you. That's the thing...I see no reason to treat for ADHD in the manner of ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 7:46 pm
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| Thank you, questor, for your reply and insight. I really appreciate insight from anyone on here. My son is very literal yet very silly social. When a meltdown occurs during a friendly game of basketball or soccer, I think he gets extremely mad if he sees something that is unfair in his mind. We made... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 6:34 pm
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| "Seeming normal, socially," can be misleading. Again, that could keep a clinician from delving into it. Probably to adults, I seemed socially normal, growing up. I did not have the same number of friends as peers, they were mostly opposite sex friends, and I did not do normal social things, at leas... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 5:14 pm
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| You would be surprised (or not) at what characteristics some clinicians think preclude a diagnosis of ASD. I am assuming you had high level tests, but would also think it would help to know which ones, as Eureka_C said. It is very possible that there is one or two stereotypical traits your son did ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 5:01 pm
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| Not to be too nosy, but what tests did they use to measure his behavior/performance (not the ones filled out by you and teachers)? For example - it sounds like they did the WISC-IV for the IQ? Did they do any attention measures? CPT-II, NEPSY - tower test, TEA-Ch, SCAN-3:C, etc. Did they do any ASD... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 4:01 pm
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Sorry, I can see why you are confused. I edited my novel just now. I forgot a word.
The neuropsych eval said specifically he was NOT ASD. I believe they included this b/c I had given them his history, including going to pediatric dev. specialist b/c we suspected Aspergers at age 4-5. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: DS ADHD Diag...Confusion? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 3:10 pm
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| Thanks so much for the reply. He actually has never gotten an ASD diagnosis. In fact I've been told he doesn't have that twice now by professionals--Dev. Ped. Specialist and Neuropsych. It is confusing in parenting b/c when I read about ADHD in particular a book by Russell Barkley (the guru) I don't... |
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