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Going to crack! At the end of my rope- How do I deal with my son?
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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 452830"><p>I agree with the others so far. A neuropsychologist would be great but if nothing else a Child Psychiatrist needs to be found soon. A few things you said in your first post caught my attention because it is the type of thing my difficult child used to do. One was dropping the puppy over the fence because you told him not to TAKE the puppies into the front. He took your direction very literally. Another is cutting the box of cereal open instead of waiting for you like you told him. He had an idea in his head and he found a way to accomplish HIS goal in a way that made perfect sense to him. He had you tuned out. The last one was how he obsesses on the strangest things. Mine does that a lot(rubberbands, paperclips, pencil-top erasers, etc) and they do change. My son was diagnosis'd at 3 years old with ADHD and at 8 years old they added ODD. At 12 he was still having many of the same issues so I took him for a more thorough assessment and it turned out that he is on the Autism Spectrum. He was never purposely being defiant. He thinks very differently than I do and my thinking/reasoning/directions don't make sense to him a lot of the time. Now that I know what I am really dealing with, things are improving. I have learned to be very patient and try to figure out how he thinks by finding out WHY he does some of the things he does.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to our "family". You have found a wealth of experience here and you will find many very broad shoulders to lean and sometimes cry on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 452830"] I agree with the others so far. A neuropsychologist would be great but if nothing else a Child Psychiatrist needs to be found soon. A few things you said in your first post caught my attention because it is the type of thing my difficult child used to do. One was dropping the puppy over the fence because you told him not to TAKE the puppies into the front. He took your direction very literally. Another is cutting the box of cereal open instead of waiting for you like you told him. He had an idea in his head and he found a way to accomplish HIS goal in a way that made perfect sense to him. He had you tuned out. The last one was how he obsesses on the strangest things. Mine does that a lot(rubberbands, paperclips, pencil-top erasers, etc) and they do change. My son was diagnosis'd at 3 years old with ADHD and at 8 years old they added ODD. At 12 he was still having many of the same issues so I took him for a more thorough assessment and it turned out that he is on the Autism Spectrum. He was never purposely being defiant. He thinks very differently than I do and my thinking/reasoning/directions don't make sense to him a lot of the time. Now that I know what I am really dealing with, things are improving. I have learned to be very patient and try to figure out how he thinks by finding out WHY he does some of the things he does. Welcome to our "family". You have found a wealth of experience here and you will find many very broad shoulders to lean and sometimes cry on. [/QUOTE]
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