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Am I in denial of the severity of my difficult child's problems?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 554121" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Yes, it is easy to adapt to very untypical circumstances and them becoming 'the normal.' But I also do have a easy child child, who, compared to most of his peers, can be considered super-easy child, so that does balance some out. And this report is certainly meant to help difficult child get that funding. Almost only positives/strengths mentioned are that he is motivated to therapy, he is able to commit to it and he doesn't have severe enough symptoms to conflict with successfulness of this kind of therapy. </p><p></p><p>It's just that when I read that report, if I didn't know my son, I would have assumed it describes a person who is almost unable to function in any 'normal' way. As I said, it does describe my son's troubles well, but after reading that report it is very difficult to imagine we are talking about a person, who is gainfully employed and in the high pressure and in some ways very demanding job nevertheless. Who is able to live in age appropriate romantic relationship. Is able to live independently and take care of his daily tasks in age appropriate manner. And if he really is that disabled, are we simply demanding too much from him? </p><p></p><p>But maybe this is about the same phenomenon that made him undiagnosable as a child. He certainly had problems and very weak areas, but he did compensate so well with his strengths that his over all functioning was always considered too high to give him a diagnosis. Maybe this report is, what he is like, when you take that compensating out of the picture. I don't know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 554121, member: 14557"] Yes, it is easy to adapt to very untypical circumstances and them becoming 'the normal.' But I also do have a easy child child, who, compared to most of his peers, can be considered super-easy child, so that does balance some out. And this report is certainly meant to help difficult child get that funding. Almost only positives/strengths mentioned are that he is motivated to therapy, he is able to commit to it and he doesn't have severe enough symptoms to conflict with successfulness of this kind of therapy. It's just that when I read that report, if I didn't know my son, I would have assumed it describes a person who is almost unable to function in any 'normal' way. As I said, it does describe my son's troubles well, but after reading that report it is very difficult to imagine we are talking about a person, who is gainfully employed and in the high pressure and in some ways very demanding job nevertheless. Who is able to live in age appropriate romantic relationship. Is able to live independently and take care of his daily tasks in age appropriate manner. And if he really is that disabled, are we simply demanding too much from him? But maybe this is about the same phenomenon that made him undiagnosable as a child. He certainly had problems and very weak areas, but he did compensate so well with his strengths that his over all functioning was always considered too high to give him a diagnosis. Maybe this report is, what he is like, when you take that compensating out of the picture. I don't know. [/QUOTE]
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