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<blockquote data-quote="Ash" data-source="post: 376423"><p>Thank you all so much for all of your help and support. I feel so overwhelmed and confused right now. I have read a lot on this forum about ODD and I see now that it isn't really helpful as a diagnosis in itself. I will discuss this with the therapist on the 8th when I go. She feels that therapy really won't help my son as much as teaching me and my husband how to parent will, so she has started counseling us instead while he is at school.</p><p></p><p>I wanted to reply to a few things that have been posted to me since my last post so here goes:</p><p></p><p>I am going to check into this. My son has never been a cuddler or hugger. Actually he HATES being touched. He has hit before when friends at school have touched him. He is very lovable if it is his idea to love, but if someone touches him and he isn't expecting it he has angry outbursts. Any parent notice this with their child too?</p><p></p><p>Yes, he has always had trouble opening up and talking to adults. Children he is very outgoing and will approach almost any new child, but adults he is very quiet and reserved and shy. Someone once suggested physical abuse but that has since been ruled out, thank goodness! He is very independent though, he has never given us trouble going to school or to church functions and he wants to always do things on his own. He has always seemed older and wiser than his age. He developed very early and was talking by 10 months, something his doctor said was out of the ordinary. He was also 5 weeks premature and was only 4 pounds at birth. </p><p></p><p>Cindy, thank you so much, and thank all of you as well. Sometimes, although I don't wish any of you trouble with your own children it feels better to know I am not alone. Nobody in my real life really understands and they just think my son is bad or is a product of bad parenting. It really upsets me sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ash, post: 376423"] Thank you all so much for all of your help and support. I feel so overwhelmed and confused right now. I have read a lot on this forum about ODD and I see now that it isn't really helpful as a diagnosis in itself. I will discuss this with the therapist on the 8th when I go. She feels that therapy really won't help my son as much as teaching me and my husband how to parent will, so she has started counseling us instead while he is at school. I wanted to reply to a few things that have been posted to me since my last post so here goes: I am going to check into this. My son has never been a cuddler or hugger. Actually he HATES being touched. He has hit before when friends at school have touched him. He is very lovable if it is his idea to love, but if someone touches him and he isn't expecting it he has angry outbursts. Any parent notice this with their child too? Yes, he has always had trouble opening up and talking to adults. Children he is very outgoing and will approach almost any new child, but adults he is very quiet and reserved and shy. Someone once suggested physical abuse but that has since been ruled out, thank goodness! He is very independent though, he has never given us trouble going to school or to church functions and he wants to always do things on his own. He has always seemed older and wiser than his age. He developed very early and was talking by 10 months, something his doctor said was out of the ordinary. He was also 5 weeks premature and was only 4 pounds at birth. Cindy, thank you so much, and thank all of you as well. Sometimes, although I don't wish any of you trouble with your own children it feels better to know I am not alone. Nobody in my real life really understands and they just think my son is bad or is a product of bad parenting. It really upsets me sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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