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<blockquote data-quote="serenityntn" data-source="post: 200750"><p>I guess I should've gave more information about my son. He was diagnosis with ADHD when he was 4 and has been on more different medications for it that I can remember. Currently he is taking 50 mg of Vyvanse in the mornings and it's working pretty good. After a few years of school they wanted to say that he is MR but I refused to let them so now he's considered to be Learning Disability (LD). He was delayed in sitting up alone, crawling, standing, walking, and speech. He started speech therapy and occupational therapy when he was 3. They gave up on him in Occupational Therapist (OT) a couple of years ago even though he has several difficulties in this area. They recently quit with the ST saying there was nothing else they could do which he is doing well with his speech although he still talks like a child much younger. The last few years has been a constant battle with the school system. The Special Education program in our county is not very good to say the least. It seems they don't even want to try to find the right way to teach him. Last year they actually put him into a CDC class which the teacher told me right from the start he didn't need to be in. Currently he is in a behavior modification class. They put him in that class when they realized they were wrong with the CDC. At the end of the school year last year things were extremely bad. He had gotten so emotional. He felt that nobody liked him and the people at school didn't even want to bother with him which I felt that way too. One day he went to school and said everyone would be happier if he was dead which of course brought in the crisis team and children protective services. They accused me of not being able to take care of him and made a big deal of my depression and diabetes. They gave me a choice, either let him go stay with his father for the summer or they would put him in an institution. Of course I chose for him to go to his father's with me having visitation. His father has never really spent much time with him since our divorce in 1999. On the average he only spent 2 days out of a month with him. I was totally devastated. I don't have any other family besides my son but my friends were a Godsend and helped me through it. Through the summer I went through psychological testing and had other meetings with Children Services. By the end of the summer they even admitted that they blew things way out of proportion. Looking back I realize that in a way it was a good thing because I didn't realize it but I desperately needed the break and of course his father needed to spend more time with him. He came home to me a couple of weeks before school started. He is doing alot better now especially with his medications. I used to have a terrible time getting him to take them but not anymore. The school has been wanting me to take him for more testing for awhile now because they felt there was more going on with him besides the ADHD and Learning Disability (LD) so I took him to Vanderbilt. The results are not in yet but I do know they are leaning towards the autism or asperger's diagnosis. I wish other people could see what an amazing child he is. In some ways he is so smart. If it's something he's interested in he can tell you everything about it. He's got a great memory and an imagination that is out of this world. He likes to make up movies and says he would like to be a director. He does have some behavior issues but nothing violent and he loves everybody. I do know that one of the reasons that they think he might be autistic is because he's always repeating things. It seems like he tells me that he loves me every few minutes sometimes. Well that's about all I can think of right now. I didn't realize until I got started how long this would be but I hope that it gives everyone a better idea about my son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="serenityntn, post: 200750"] I guess I should've gave more information about my son. He was diagnosis with ADHD when he was 4 and has been on more different medications for it that I can remember. Currently he is taking 50 mg of Vyvanse in the mornings and it's working pretty good. After a few years of school they wanted to say that he is MR but I refused to let them so now he's considered to be Learning Disability (LD). He was delayed in sitting up alone, crawling, standing, walking, and speech. He started speech therapy and occupational therapy when he was 3. They gave up on him in Occupational Therapist (OT) a couple of years ago even though he has several difficulties in this area. They recently quit with the ST saying there was nothing else they could do which he is doing well with his speech although he still talks like a child much younger. The last few years has been a constant battle with the school system. The Special Education program in our county is not very good to say the least. It seems they don't even want to try to find the right way to teach him. Last year they actually put him into a CDC class which the teacher told me right from the start he didn't need to be in. Currently he is in a behavior modification class. They put him in that class when they realized they were wrong with the CDC. At the end of the school year last year things were extremely bad. He had gotten so emotional. He felt that nobody liked him and the people at school didn't even want to bother with him which I felt that way too. One day he went to school and said everyone would be happier if he was dead which of course brought in the crisis team and children protective services. They accused me of not being able to take care of him and made a big deal of my depression and diabetes. They gave me a choice, either let him go stay with his father for the summer or they would put him in an institution. Of course I chose for him to go to his father's with me having visitation. His father has never really spent much time with him since our divorce in 1999. On the average he only spent 2 days out of a month with him. I was totally devastated. I don't have any other family besides my son but my friends were a Godsend and helped me through it. Through the summer I went through psychological testing and had other meetings with Children Services. By the end of the summer they even admitted that they blew things way out of proportion. Looking back I realize that in a way it was a good thing because I didn't realize it but I desperately needed the break and of course his father needed to spend more time with him. He came home to me a couple of weeks before school started. He is doing alot better now especially with his medications. I used to have a terrible time getting him to take them but not anymore. The school has been wanting me to take him for more testing for awhile now because they felt there was more going on with him besides the ADHD and Learning Disability (LD) so I took him to Vanderbilt. The results are not in yet but I do know they are leaning towards the autism or asperger's diagnosis. I wish other people could see what an amazing child he is. In some ways he is so smart. If it's something he's interested in he can tell you everything about it. He's got a great memory and an imagination that is out of this world. He likes to make up movies and says he would like to be a director. He does have some behavior issues but nothing violent and he loves everybody. I do know that one of the reasons that they think he might be autistic is because he's always repeating things. It seems like he tells me that he loves me every few minutes sometimes. Well that's about all I can think of right now. I didn't realize until I got started how long this would be but I hope that it gives everyone a better idea about my son. [/QUOTE]
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