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<blockquote data-quote="change" data-source="post: 142780" data-attributes="member: 4808"><p>Thank you everyone for quickly replying. (Today is a bad day and I need some support.) I keep getting e-mails here at work about her. She's failing school in other classes I didn't know about and also acting "absent" and disrespecting other teachers besides the science teacher. </p><p> </p><p>We adopted her at 3 1/2 and brother at 5. They are about 14 months apart. They have been tested numerous times and "yes" to all of the questions that y'all asked about the different types of evaluations and tests. The results were that there was no evidence of drug or fetal alcohol syndrome. There was no evidence of physical abuse in her and one reported incident of a weird physical thing with him at like 6 months old I think. His diagnosis changed many times but he was diagnosed as young as 7 years old with anti-social personality or something like that. Both had Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we got them. It's been a battle forever. She had gotten a lot better but we've never totally gotten over it. He never came out of it AT ALL. We feel he never really bonded with us. It seemed like it at first, but after looking back, we don't think so. We only recently learned all of the symptoms of that and he has/had them all the whole time. She had some of them for many years, had gotten much better, but still had a couple and now has gotten really bad again. With her, it doesn't make sense. There is a family history of bi-polar disorder but she just had a SPECT scan and she doesn't have it. She has PTSD, ADD, and a ton of anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that she has is weird. She has binge eating, bites her nails, and things like that. She also lies a lot. We have been in talk therapy with them since we got them. They've had a psychiatrist since then too. She now sees an EMDR specialist after the attack by her brother. (It's expensive and I'm not even sure it's helping at all.) She takes Concerta, Effexor (just switched from Wellbutrin), and Topamax (for binge eating). She's out of control with the binge eating too though. She won't much of regular food at all but she pesters others for $, candy, etc. and will steal or go after it all costs if not monitored. It's stressful and awful. She does not care at all that kids talk about her or that she is treated like a criminal over that sometimes. I don't get it. Her life is very lonely but she does nothing at all to change it. Kids want to be her friend (and I've seen her in action) but for no reason at all, she'll be mean to them or act bizarre with them so eventually they'll give up trying. We've tried a small school setting for 2 years...it was awful. We wasted a lot of $ and she got even more behind academically. Financially, we can't afford to quit our job and homeschool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="change, post: 142780, member: 4808"] Thank you everyone for quickly replying. (Today is a bad day and I need some support.) I keep getting e-mails here at work about her. She's failing school in other classes I didn't know about and also acting "absent" and disrespecting other teachers besides the science teacher. We adopted her at 3 1/2 and brother at 5. They are about 14 months apart. They have been tested numerous times and "yes" to all of the questions that y'all asked about the different types of evaluations and tests. The results were that there was no evidence of drug or fetal alcohol syndrome. There was no evidence of physical abuse in her and one reported incident of a weird physical thing with him at like 6 months old I think. His diagnosis changed many times but he was diagnosed as young as 7 years old with anti-social personality or something like that. Both had Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we got them. It's been a battle forever. She had gotten a lot better but we've never totally gotten over it. He never came out of it AT ALL. We feel he never really bonded with us. It seemed like it at first, but after looking back, we don't think so. We only recently learned all of the symptoms of that and he has/had them all the whole time. She had some of them for many years, had gotten much better, but still had a couple and now has gotten really bad again. With her, it doesn't make sense. There is a family history of bi-polar disorder but she just had a SPECT scan and she doesn't have it. She has PTSD, ADD, and a ton of anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that she has is weird. She has binge eating, bites her nails, and things like that. She also lies a lot. We have been in talk therapy with them since we got them. They've had a psychiatrist since then too. She now sees an EMDR specialist after the attack by her brother. (It's expensive and I'm not even sure it's helping at all.) She takes Concerta, Effexor (just switched from Wellbutrin), and Topamax (for binge eating). She's out of control with the binge eating too though. She won't much of regular food at all but she pesters others for $, candy, etc. and will steal or go after it all costs if not monitored. It's stressful and awful. She does not care at all that kids talk about her or that she is treated like a criminal over that sometimes. I don't get it. Her life is very lonely but she does nothing at all to change it. Kids want to be her friend (and I've seen her in action) but for no reason at all, she'll be mean to them or act bizarre with them so eventually they'll give up trying. We've tried a small school setting for 2 years...it was awful. We wasted a lot of $ and she got even more behind academically. Financially, we can't afford to quit our job and homeschool. [/QUOTE]
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