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<blockquote data-quote="'Chelle" data-source="post: 214274" data-attributes="member: 1161"><p>I'm kinda shaking my head at your psychiatrist's reasoning. My difficult child can engage - in certain situations - especially with adults in a one on one, even more after he gets to know them a bit better. Start getting more people involved and he starts to shut down. Your difficult child may sit and talk to psychiatrist, but how is he in other situations. My difficult child can get a joke - does your psychiatrist think spectrum people don't find things funny? I do know that sometimes he finds them funny in a different way. Once I was reading a Readers Digest in an office waiting for one of his appointments and laughed at one of the jokes they had in the mag. difficult child wanted to know what was funny and I read him the joke. He thought is was funny, but when I had him explain what was funny about it, his conclusion was a bit round-about and different from the way most people would see it, but when I looked at it the way he saw it, it WAS still funny. My difficult child used to have rages, which stemmed from his anxieties and not being able to truly articulate what he was thinking/feeling/needed. </p><p></p><p>However, with these things my difficult child IS Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), I'm sure of it. His eye contact is better, but remains poor in most situations, he doesn't get many social situations (at 15 thinks parties and gatherings like that are stupid and pointless LOL), still can have sensory issues (especially sound and light bother him), and can get a bit "stuck" Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) about things.</p><p></p><p>If you're not sure your diagnosis is right, do get a re-evaluation with a neuropsychologist. Any good doctor, psychiatrist should not be bothered by you getting a second opinion as they should only want what's best for your difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Chelle, post: 214274, member: 1161"] I'm kinda shaking my head at your psychiatrist's reasoning. My difficult child can engage - in certain situations - especially with adults in a one on one, even more after he gets to know them a bit better. Start getting more people involved and he starts to shut down. Your difficult child may sit and talk to psychiatrist, but how is he in other situations. My difficult child can get a joke - does your psychiatrist think spectrum people don't find things funny? I do know that sometimes he finds them funny in a different way. Once I was reading a Readers Digest in an office waiting for one of his appointments and laughed at one of the jokes they had in the mag. difficult child wanted to know what was funny and I read him the joke. He thought is was funny, but when I had him explain what was funny about it, his conclusion was a bit round-about and different from the way most people would see it, but when I looked at it the way he saw it, it WAS still funny. My difficult child used to have rages, which stemmed from his anxieties and not being able to truly articulate what he was thinking/feeling/needed. However, with these things my difficult child IS Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), I'm sure of it. His eye contact is better, but remains poor in most situations, he doesn't get many social situations (at 15 thinks parties and gatherings like that are stupid and pointless LOL), still can have sensory issues (especially sound and light bother him), and can get a bit "stuck" Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) about things. If you're not sure your diagnosis is right, do get a re-evaluation with a neuropsychologist. Any good doctor, psychiatrist should not be bothered by you getting a second opinion as they should only want what's best for your difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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