I lost it and feeling very distraught!

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I am going to continue searching for the right doctor/therapist that I feel is the right one for my son.

OddFiction, I have considered ODD for quite some time, but I had a conference with his teacher and approached her with this. I asked her if there was a defiant element to him not wanting to stay on task, and she did not feel that there was. She just feels that he has so much going on in his mind, that he has a hard time staying on task.

I even questioned ODD as young as 2 yrs old. I remember the speech therapist asking him to "go to the table, and pick up a block.", and he wouldn't do it. I said " I just think he doesn't want to do it", and she said "I just think he is not processing what we have asked him to do" So, I have struggled with that for awhile. It is the same if I sit down to do a project or a task with him. If he is not interested, he will not do it. But, from what I have read, this is very much an Aspie thing. Also, I have read that some Aspies do have a problem with authority, so it is very complex.

Hopefully, we will find the right help for our son.

Here's my experience with diagnoses, and quite a few have been bandied about for my son: most of them entail different approaches, different therapies, different treatments. What settled us on an ASD is that the accommodations and therapies actually seem to have a positive effect.

The one difficulty is that the first order of business in treating many disorders involves medications that have not been adequately tested on children: I am really, really uncomfortable with playing with the chemistry of a developing brain. I'm not saying parents haven't done it without harm and even with success, and I'm not saying I'd never do it myself - but I do think of medication as a last resort, and certainly not in a trial and error situation.

Momsparky, I agree. I am going to try the therapy route, and see where that takes us. I have decided that I am giving my son until 7 or 8 at least before we decide to medicate, and even then, we would not take it lightly. He is only 5, and he has been developmentally delayed across the board, so I feel he still needs time to catch up in some ways. Up until about 6 mos ago, I was satisfied that all of his needs were being adressed through speech, Ot,and physical therapy. But now, I am feeling that it is time to seek a psychologist.