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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 630947" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Thank you MWM. I will read your link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>He has never been diagnosed with anything. When he was very young - like 3 - his daycare insisted I take him to a psychologist because he was very disuptive. The quack sat in a room with him, alone, for 20 minutes and then insisted he had ADHD and needed Ritalin. Why? Because every time he heard a noise he looked at the door. Gee...a 3 year old is taken into a room by a stranger and his mom is left outside and he keeps looking at the door. How remarkable.</p><p> </p><p>So I took him to my GP who had an absolute fit when I told him. I asked for a referral to a reputable physician for a 2nd opinion. He sent me to a child psychiatrist. We sat and chatted for 1/2 and hour while my son quietly put together jigsaw puzzles. The Dr. said then, "Give this child Ritalin and you'll be peeling him off the ceiling; he isn't hyperactive at all." He told me, after a few sessions with my son that he was never going to be an "easy" child, and he could give him medication to help him focus better, but that as a father himself, he wouldn't recommend it. He suggested I keep him in a group settting, like preschool, instead of the private sitter I had moved him too.</p><p> </p><p>So son got an IEP and was placed in a pre-school program thru Special Education. I had to have quack sign off on it. He told me, "Do what you want, but sooner or later you're going to have to put him on Ritalin so you may as well do it now!" The nerve of that putz.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, he did the preschool and then I put him in a regular pre-kindergarten summer school, for the socialization. I was asked by the kindergarten teacher then why he was in the program and that he could skip kindergarten entirely. He was not quite 5. While most moms I know keep their kids out of kindergarten until they are 6 now, I started him at 5.</p><p> </p><p>Not sure why I bothered with all that background...but I had done a lot of research myself with aspergers back then. I raised it with the physchiatrist, but he didn't think there was enough to go on to give that diagnosis. I have always wondered myself and still do. It's minor, I believe, but the social awkwardness, obsessiveness, etc., they do fit. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>He's actually said this very thing to us. Our school is very cliquey. He didn't fit in with the jocks, or the nerds, or the goth kids or whatever...he said once the stoners were the only people who were nice to him. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 630947, member: 17309"] Thank you MWM. I will read your link. He has never been diagnosed with anything. When he was very young - like 3 - his daycare insisted I take him to a psychologist because he was very disuptive. The quack sat in a room with him, alone, for 20 minutes and then insisted he had ADHD and needed Ritalin. Why? Because every time he heard a noise he looked at the door. Gee...a 3 year old is taken into a room by a stranger and his mom is left outside and he keeps looking at the door. How remarkable. So I took him to my GP who had an absolute fit when I told him. I asked for a referral to a reputable physician for a 2nd opinion. He sent me to a child psychiatrist. We sat and chatted for 1/2 and hour while my son quietly put together jigsaw puzzles. The Dr. said then, "Give this child Ritalin and you'll be peeling him off the ceiling; he isn't hyperactive at all." He told me, after a few sessions with my son that he was never going to be an "easy" child, and he could give him medication to help him focus better, but that as a father himself, he wouldn't recommend it. He suggested I keep him in a group settting, like preschool, instead of the private sitter I had moved him too. So son got an IEP and was placed in a pre-school program thru Special Education. I had to have quack sign off on it. He told me, "Do what you want, but sooner or later you're going to have to put him on Ritalin so you may as well do it now!" The nerve of that putz. Anyway, he did the preschool and then I put him in a regular pre-kindergarten summer school, for the socialization. I was asked by the kindergarten teacher then why he was in the program and that he could skip kindergarten entirely. He was not quite 5. While most moms I know keep their kids out of kindergarten until they are 6 now, I started him at 5. Not sure why I bothered with all that background...but I had done a lot of research myself with aspergers back then. I raised it with the physchiatrist, but he didn't think there was enough to go on to give that diagnosis. I have always wondered myself and still do. It's minor, I believe, but the social awkwardness, obsessiveness, etc., they do fit. He's actually said this very thing to us. Our school is very cliquey. He didn't fit in with the jocks, or the nerds, or the goth kids or whatever...he said once the stoners were the only people who were nice to him. :( [/QUOTE]
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