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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 355966" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants don't work for difficult child 3. And Zoloft - it's absolutely brilliant for difficult child 1. His wife is on it too so they sometimes take each other's. Why travel with two packs, when one will do? As I said - these kids are all different, the rules don't always apply.</p><p>Marijuana is generally a really bad thing for these kids - it has other effects that can cause problems. Remember, stimulant medications often work to settle these kids down, especially settling ADHD kids (and I agree, not all ADHD kids have other Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) signs). Stimulant medications usually stimulate 'normal' kids. They calm down the ADHD kids. It is a paradoxic reaction that doctors count on. So you can get similar paradoxic reactions to marijuana and the psychosis problems can be much more an issue for ADHD kids.</p><p></p><p>On the topic of socialisation - we've found they tend to find other kids like them, in some way. difficult child 1's best friend at school was a classic (undiagnosed at the time) Aspie. He would do weird things, magic tricks etc. ONe time he had a can of lighter fluid at school - poured it over his hand and lit it to see what would happen. NOT a good idea. The school never knew. But the teachers (most of them) were scared of him and the deputy had a campaign to get rid of him. She would have campaigned to get rid of difficult child 1, but he had IEP funding and this was money coming into the school. She did eventually push me too far though, and I pulled him out.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1's Aspie friend - I remember difficult child 1 telling me one day, "He talks at me about reptiles, I obsess to him about birds, neither of us listens to the other and we get along great!"</p><p>Aspie mate was difficult child 1's best man when he married. I tell you, that was some wedding speech! Although daughter in law is not Aspie, I suspect her mother is. She HAD to be in full control of the wedding and people still talk about "that woman". Her reaction to the best man's speech was electric - she almost launched out of her chair to silence him! He (and the other groomsman, who had to help) began with, "When we were asked to give a speech, we were given a list of words we definitely should not use. Here they are..."</p><p></p><p>Now Aspie mate is getting married soon. It will be very interesting...</p><p></p><p>Raising Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids (or even just having them around) keeps you on your toes and your mind stimulated. To a certain extent you get used to the unusual and take it in your stride. But some things are memorable - the time we bought a new front-loader washing machine, for example.</p><p>We set it up and plugged it in. I started off a load of washing. At some later stage I noticed the boys were quiet and went looking. I found them sitting on the floor in the laundry, cross-legged in front of the washing machine, heads tilting this way and that in unison as they watched the clothes through the little window.</p><p>"I don't know why but I find tis strangely compelling," difficult child 1 said, without changing his position.</p><p></p><p>They got the empty cardboard carton the washing machine had come in, and worked on it. They cut a small window in it, filled it with cushions, threaded the computer game controllers through the window and sat inside the box with the window pointed at the game screen. Or they watched TV from inside the box. I also found difficult child 1 doing his homework inside the box. They closed the top of the box so it was cramped and dark inside. But they liked it. They had controlled their environment and arranged it to their liking. I found it a very enlightening experience.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 355966, member: 1991"] Anti-anxiety medications and antidepressants don't work for difficult child 3. And Zoloft - it's absolutely brilliant for difficult child 1. His wife is on it too so they sometimes take each other's. Why travel with two packs, when one will do? As I said - these kids are all different, the rules don't always apply. Marijuana is generally a really bad thing for these kids - it has other effects that can cause problems. Remember, stimulant medications often work to settle these kids down, especially settling ADHD kids (and I agree, not all ADHD kids have other Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) signs). Stimulant medications usually stimulate 'normal' kids. They calm down the ADHD kids. It is a paradoxic reaction that doctors count on. So you can get similar paradoxic reactions to marijuana and the psychosis problems can be much more an issue for ADHD kids. On the topic of socialisation - we've found they tend to find other kids like them, in some way. difficult child 1's best friend at school was a classic (undiagnosed at the time) Aspie. He would do weird things, magic tricks etc. ONe time he had a can of lighter fluid at school - poured it over his hand and lit it to see what would happen. NOT a good idea. The school never knew. But the teachers (most of them) were scared of him and the deputy had a campaign to get rid of him. She would have campaigned to get rid of difficult child 1, but he had IEP funding and this was money coming into the school. She did eventually push me too far though, and I pulled him out. difficult child 1's Aspie friend - I remember difficult child 1 telling me one day, "He talks at me about reptiles, I obsess to him about birds, neither of us listens to the other and we get along great!" Aspie mate was difficult child 1's best man when he married. I tell you, that was some wedding speech! Although daughter in law is not Aspie, I suspect her mother is. She HAD to be in full control of the wedding and people still talk about "that woman". Her reaction to the best man's speech was electric - she almost launched out of her chair to silence him! He (and the other groomsman, who had to help) began with, "When we were asked to give a speech, we were given a list of words we definitely should not use. Here they are..." Now Aspie mate is getting married soon. It will be very interesting... Raising Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids (or even just having them around) keeps you on your toes and your mind stimulated. To a certain extent you get used to the unusual and take it in your stride. But some things are memorable - the time we bought a new front-loader washing machine, for example. We set it up and plugged it in. I started off a load of washing. At some later stage I noticed the boys were quiet and went looking. I found them sitting on the floor in the laundry, cross-legged in front of the washing machine, heads tilting this way and that in unison as they watched the clothes through the little window. "I don't know why but I find tis strangely compelling," difficult child 1 said, without changing his position. They got the empty cardboard carton the washing machine had come in, and worked on it. They cut a small window in it, filled it with cushions, threaded the computer game controllers through the window and sat inside the box with the window pointed at the game screen. Or they watched TV from inside the box. I also found difficult child 1 doing his homework inside the box. They closed the top of the box so it was cramped and dark inside. But they liked it. They had controlled their environment and arranged it to their liking. I found it a very enlightening experience. Marg [/QUOTE]
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