Stumbled across this site this evening! My son who is 8, has been diagnosed, initially as autistic and now as ADHD. He's been a busy, on the go wee guy since birth, read before he started school, talked late and we thought he had hearing issues but that's all clear. He doesn't listen, runs away, lashes out, will ignore nearly every request I make or the teachers. He has teacher aide time of about an hour a day at school but then during lunch hour he can't regulate his emotions so has been getting into fights. He's lashed out at a lot of kids in the past few weeks who have confronted him about something, like a fight over the flying fox at school or similar and he's attacked them badly. He has been known to stand purposefully on all the children's feet as they are sitting on the mat at school and they all scamper to get out of his way. On the flip side, he's a loving caring little boy who desperately wants friends. He has obsessions with people, generally girls and just wants to stroke their head or rest his head on their shoulder. He's constantly hugging me and telling me he loves me, he has a heart of gold.
I am incredibly worried about this anti social behaviour that is happening and doesn't seem to have changed with all the intervention that we've had and I've been starting to look at medication but it doesn't look like it does any good, can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'm so worried that he's going to hurt someone seriously soon or worse when he becomes an adult. I'm reasonably anti medications for my kids but this is quite hypocritical of me as I've been on them myself for most of my life so I understand the benefits of how life changing they can be if the right one is found. I'm just unsure as I seem to have read quite a lot of negative stuff about it here.
Can it help aggression at all or does it just make it worse?
Thanks
I am incredibly worried about this anti social behaviour that is happening and doesn't seem to have changed with all the intervention that we've had and I've been starting to look at medication but it doesn't look like it does any good, can someone please shed some light on this for me? I'm so worried that he's going to hurt someone seriously soon or worse when he becomes an adult. I'm reasonably anti medications for my kids but this is quite hypocritical of me as I've been on them myself for most of my life so I understand the benefits of how life changing they can be if the right one is found. I'm just unsure as I seem to have read quite a lot of negative stuff about it here.
Can it help aggression at all or does it just make it worse?
Thanks