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<blockquote data-quote="OpenWindow" data-source="post: 183981" data-attributes="member: 45"><p>Midwest Mom - I'm waiting to find out if his name on the list is temporary (somewhere I saw it could be on there one year, like probation) or permanent, and if it's permanent, if it will transfer over when he's an adult. </p><p></p><p>I think intellectually he knows it's wrong, because we've told him over and over again. He can recite the words but it doesn't stop him from a lot of his behaviors. Like a lot of things with him, telling usually doesn't work. He used to run away and we would tell him how dangerous it was, how some stranger could come pick him up. Well, one day he ran off during school and he was picked up by a stranger - he willingly got into her car. Luckily, it was a very nice woman who immediately called my husband at home and waited there with difficult child until he got there. After that, we let him watch Law and Order and other shows that depicted kidnapping and all the terrible things that could happen because he just didn't get it, he had to see it. I'm not sure if it was maturity or that, but he stopped running away. Long story short, I think he knows intellectually, but not emotionally and he doesn't transfer his knowledge to his actions. </p><p></p><p>He doesn't have an official Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) diagnosis. The last autism clinic he was evaluated at said that he has autistic characteristics, possibly Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). His psychiatrist in St. Louis diagnosed him with DAMP, which is a diagnosis used in Europe and is on the high-functioning end of the spectrum. The last psychologist who did an evaluation said she didn't believe he had Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), although she could see some things that might fit. </p><p></p><p>His counselor agrees that he just doesn't get it, and doesn't think he is a predator. She said it can happen with kids who are socially awkward, impulsive, and have trouble with boundaries. </p><p></p><p>totoro - that's what I'm thinking. So many terrible, awful horrible things that go on and are allowed to go on and then here we are, doing everything we can, and they overreact like this. I've been told it's luck of the draw depending on which investigators you get and their current workload.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OpenWindow, post: 183981, member: 45"] Midwest Mom - I'm waiting to find out if his name on the list is temporary (somewhere I saw it could be on there one year, like probation) or permanent, and if it's permanent, if it will transfer over when he's an adult. I think intellectually he knows it's wrong, because we've told him over and over again. He can recite the words but it doesn't stop him from a lot of his behaviors. Like a lot of things with him, telling usually doesn't work. He used to run away and we would tell him how dangerous it was, how some stranger could come pick him up. Well, one day he ran off during school and he was picked up by a stranger - he willingly got into her car. Luckily, it was a very nice woman who immediately called my husband at home and waited there with difficult child until he got there. After that, we let him watch Law and Order and other shows that depicted kidnapping and all the terrible things that could happen because he just didn't get it, he had to see it. I'm not sure if it was maturity or that, but he stopped running away. Long story short, I think he knows intellectually, but not emotionally and he doesn't transfer his knowledge to his actions. He doesn't have an official Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) diagnosis. The last autism clinic he was evaluated at said that he has autistic characteristics, possibly Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). His psychiatrist in St. Louis diagnosed him with DAMP, which is a diagnosis used in Europe and is on the high-functioning end of the spectrum. The last psychologist who did an evaluation said she didn't believe he had Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), although she could see some things that might fit. His counselor agrees that he just doesn't get it, and doesn't think he is a predator. She said it can happen with kids who are socially awkward, impulsive, and have trouble with boundaries. totoro - that's what I'm thinking. So many terrible, awful horrible things that go on and are allowed to go on and then here we are, doing everything we can, and they overreact like this. I've been told it's luck of the draw depending on which investigators you get and their current workload. [/QUOTE]
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