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Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis of my 18 year old son
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 433923" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I would be less hesitant about slapping him with ASPD if he hadn't been adopted at such a late age. Early chaotic lives and multiple caregivers and having no real home base for so many years does lead to ASPD or disorders that have the same exact criteria (Reactive Attachment Disorder, Conduct Disorder). Those are buzz words for ASPD in younger children. </p><p>My child who molested all my younger kids (without us suspecting a thing) was a GREAT actor. He could charm, cry, act remorseful and, in the background, scare my little ones into silence while he performed atrocities. When he had to leave, per our insistence to social services, he cried, but they were tears for himself. He'd liked the material comforts we'd given him and the freedom and knew his gig was up. But he had acted like a normal kid in front of all adults for three years. One thing he had never done was truly attach to us or anyone else. He couldn't.</p><p></p><p>I find it interesting that your son's adoption profile was the best of the children you read about. So was R's. He was said to be cognitively slow a bit (I think he is actually a faker and brilliant), with NO behavioral problems at all. He was listed as compassionate, helpful, and gentle and he loved to help his foster mother of five years with her day care kids (I'm sure he did. He confessed once in rehab that he'd molested them.) But he fooled every psychiatrist and his social workers. His ex-foster mom of five years was also shocked. At first she didn't even believe us. So everyone thought that he was a great child so we were optimistic when we adopted him.</p><p></p><p>He never did miss us. We heard that he talked about wanting to go home (to us), but when he told he couldn't, he was just angry that he had to be in a lock up. ASPD's are very good at acting charming. They are great con artists. Some are dangerous, like R. was. Some suppress their urges to do physical harm, but harm people in other ways. Drugs could be a factor, however, although they can make a child act like a wild child with a mood disorder, I'm not sure they make one mimic ASPD. </p><p></p><p>You may be interested in this link. I found it after R. left our house and I couldn't stop reading the posts. It is a support board for people who have ASPD and they pretty much expose who they really are. Here it is:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.psychforums.com/antisocial-personality/" target="_blank">http://www.psychforums.com/antisocial-personality/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 433923, member: 1550"] I would be less hesitant about slapping him with ASPD if he hadn't been adopted at such a late age. Early chaotic lives and multiple caregivers and having no real home base for so many years does lead to ASPD or disorders that have the same exact criteria (Reactive Attachment Disorder, Conduct Disorder). Those are buzz words for ASPD in younger children. My child who molested all my younger kids (without us suspecting a thing) was a GREAT actor. He could charm, cry, act remorseful and, in the background, scare my little ones into silence while he performed atrocities. When he had to leave, per our insistence to social services, he cried, but they were tears for himself. He'd liked the material comforts we'd given him and the freedom and knew his gig was up. But he had acted like a normal kid in front of all adults for three years. One thing he had never done was truly attach to us or anyone else. He couldn't. I find it interesting that your son's adoption profile was the best of the children you read about. So was R's. He was said to be cognitively slow a bit (I think he is actually a faker and brilliant), with NO behavioral problems at all. He was listed as compassionate, helpful, and gentle and he loved to help his foster mother of five years with her day care kids (I'm sure he did. He confessed once in rehab that he'd molested them.) But he fooled every psychiatrist and his social workers. His ex-foster mom of five years was also shocked. At first she didn't even believe us. So everyone thought that he was a great child so we were optimistic when we adopted him. He never did miss us. We heard that he talked about wanting to go home (to us), but when he told he couldn't, he was just angry that he had to be in a lock up. ASPD's are very good at acting charming. They are great con artists. Some are dangerous, like R. was. Some suppress their urges to do physical harm, but harm people in other ways. Drugs could be a factor, however, although they can make a child act like a wild child with a mood disorder, I'm not sure they make one mimic ASPD. You may be interested in this link. I found it after R. left our house and I couldn't stop reading the posts. It is a support board for people who have ASPD and they pretty much expose who they really are. Here it is: [URL]http://www.psychforums.com/antisocial-personality/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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