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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 223043" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Nancy, you said, "Her IQ is low, memory is bad (although much much better now), and she's ok socially for the most part. I mean, she has a couple friends. She is such a cuddler too."</p><p></p><p>A few things on this - you say her IQ is low; is this a score on a test, or your own observations? Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids can often be brighter than they seem. Both my boys "failed" their first IQ tests but have since scored way above average. YOu can also have a very wide range of IQs in Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Frankly, IQ tests were not designed to test anyone too far outside the normal range, or too different. So the result on an IQ test is probably NOT an accurate measure of her true ability.</p><p></p><p>"OK socially" is NOT the same thing as "having a few friends". difficult child 1 has a few very loyal friends; they're also Aspie. Kids with Asperger's tend to gravitate together and bond. difficult child 3 is very sociable, he loves people and will chatter to total strangers. However, he's not appropriate with it. The cuddliness - easy child 2/difficult child 2 is a cuddlebunny, as I call her. She would want a hug form me at any time, and would sulk if I refused or said, "Not now." I mean, it's often not appropriate. difficult child 1 would also snuggle into me especially when we were out in public. difficult child 3 has always been happy to give me a hug, although he did better when I asked for a hug. He didn't like people just reaching out for a hug, without warning. But that's not unusual.</p><p></p><p>MWM, about the "hearing voices" - I've mentioned before on this site, a book by an Australian woman, Wendy Lawson. The book is called "Life Behind Glass". Wendy Lawson has Asperger's Syndrome and now does a lot of work lecturing on it and working to raise awareness. But when she was about 19 she was diagnosed as having schizophrenia in much the same way as your son was diagnosed as bipolar. A doctor asked her, "Do you hear voice?" and she replied, "Of course I do." She then spent the next ten years or more (not sure exactly how long) in a locked psychiatric ward. She just accepted it all, because of course the doctor must be right.</p><p></p><p>Her story was similar - as she said, "You do HEAR voices, you don't SEE them."</p><p></p><p>It's all part of the literal-mindedness of the person with Asperger's.</p><p></p><p>ON the subject of medications - we just got home from the pediatrician. He's changed difficult child 3's medications to Strattera. We're to stay on the dex until we've had five to six weeks on the Strattera to get it "on board" and then we're to stop the dex to see if the Strattera is enough for him to function on. we're also trying to see if this improves difficult child 3's anxiety.</p><p></p><p>So there is always flexibility, always the chance to fiddle this or that to try to help.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 is going to keep working on his Maths extension work over our Christmas break (which goes until the end of January) so we can actively test any changes due to the Strattera. We test his ability to concentrate, with Maths, and with computer games. I might even get difficult child 3 to draw up a spreadsheet with the various options and to give himself a score out of ten for Maths functioning, and game functioning, every day. Fifteen minutes' working is all we need to get a measure.</p><p></p><p>Here is one good way to harness the obsessionality, the meticulous data recording and the need for routine.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 223043, member: 1991"] Nancy, you said, "Her IQ is low, memory is bad (although much much better now), and she's ok socially for the most part. I mean, she has a couple friends. She is such a cuddler too." A few things on this - you say her IQ is low; is this a score on a test, or your own observations? Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids can often be brighter than they seem. Both my boys "failed" their first IQ tests but have since scored way above average. YOu can also have a very wide range of IQs in Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Frankly, IQ tests were not designed to test anyone too far outside the normal range, or too different. So the result on an IQ test is probably NOT an accurate measure of her true ability. "OK socially" is NOT the same thing as "having a few friends". difficult child 1 has a few very loyal friends; they're also Aspie. Kids with Asperger's tend to gravitate together and bond. difficult child 3 is very sociable, he loves people and will chatter to total strangers. However, he's not appropriate with it. The cuddliness - easy child 2/difficult child 2 is a cuddlebunny, as I call her. She would want a hug form me at any time, and would sulk if I refused or said, "Not now." I mean, it's often not appropriate. difficult child 1 would also snuggle into me especially when we were out in public. difficult child 3 has always been happy to give me a hug, although he did better when I asked for a hug. He didn't like people just reaching out for a hug, without warning. But that's not unusual. MWM, about the "hearing voices" - I've mentioned before on this site, a book by an Australian woman, Wendy Lawson. The book is called "Life Behind Glass". Wendy Lawson has Asperger's Syndrome and now does a lot of work lecturing on it and working to raise awareness. But when she was about 19 she was diagnosed as having schizophrenia in much the same way as your son was diagnosed as bipolar. A doctor asked her, "Do you hear voice?" and she replied, "Of course I do." She then spent the next ten years or more (not sure exactly how long) in a locked psychiatric ward. She just accepted it all, because of course the doctor must be right. Her story was similar - as she said, "You do HEAR voices, you don't SEE them." It's all part of the literal-mindedness of the person with Asperger's. ON the subject of medications - we just got home from the pediatrician. He's changed difficult child 3's medications to Strattera. We're to stay on the dex until we've had five to six weeks on the Strattera to get it "on board" and then we're to stop the dex to see if the Strattera is enough for him to function on. we're also trying to see if this improves difficult child 3's anxiety. So there is always flexibility, always the chance to fiddle this or that to try to help. difficult child 3 is going to keep working on his Maths extension work over our Christmas break (which goes until the end of January) so we can actively test any changes due to the Strattera. We test his ability to concentrate, with Maths, and with computer games. I might even get difficult child 3 to draw up a spreadsheet with the various options and to give himself a score out of ten for Maths functioning, and game functioning, every day. Fifteen minutes' working is all we need to get a measure. Here is one good way to harness the obsessionality, the meticulous data recording and the need for routine. Marg [/QUOTE]
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