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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 242722" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Untreated, disorders tend to worsen, not improve. Aspergers: Well, medications are NOT the first treatment for Aspergers--social skills, life skills, and sometimes Occupational Therapist (OT) and PT are. Talk therapy isn't always very helpful either. Developmentally these kids may be really smart, but extremely inappropriate socially--totally clueless--and they literally need to be text book taught how to behave appropriately because they don't catch on just by watching other people. My son got LOTS of help in Social Skills/Life skills. There is no similarity in the treatment. medications are used on 50&#37; of Aspergers kids, but just to help curb the more bizarre behaviors, not to actually change them. Interventions are mandatory for these kids to grow up and understand how the world works. I have bipolar and my son is Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). They are nowhere near the same things. Putting off a neuropsychologist evaluation is in my opinion dangerous for the child. The younger he is in getting proper interventions, the better the prognosis. The older he is, the more he will resist getting help. I have a friend with a 30 year old Aspie who had an ADHD/BiPolar (BP) diagnosis for 20 years. Now he is clearly an Aspie and diagnosed and off medications, but he is unwilling to get help: "I've had enough." He is really struggling. With an IQ of 160 and a college degree, he still can't hold a job (he is so inappropriate in the workplace) and his marriage is on the rocks. He is very needy. Please don't delay. It can't hurt to get another opinion. (((Hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 242722, member: 1550"] Untreated, disorders tend to worsen, not improve. Aspergers: Well, medications are NOT the first treatment for Aspergers--social skills, life skills, and sometimes Occupational Therapist (OT) and PT are. Talk therapy isn't always very helpful either. Developmentally these kids may be really smart, but extremely inappropriate socially--totally clueless--and they literally need to be text book taught how to behave appropriately because they don't catch on just by watching other people. My son got LOTS of help in Social Skills/Life skills. There is no similarity in the treatment. medications are used on 50% of Aspergers kids, but just to help curb the more bizarre behaviors, not to actually change them. Interventions are mandatory for these kids to grow up and understand how the world works. I have bipolar and my son is Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). They are nowhere near the same things. Putting off a neuropsychologist evaluation is in my opinion dangerous for the child. The younger he is in getting proper interventions, the better the prognosis. The older he is, the more he will resist getting help. I have a friend with a 30 year old Aspie who had an ADHD/BiPolar (BP) diagnosis for 20 years. Now he is clearly an Aspie and diagnosed and off medications, but he is unwilling to get help: "I've had enough." He is really struggling. With an IQ of 160 and a college degree, he still can't hold a job (he is so inappropriate in the workplace) and his marriage is on the rocks. He is very needy. Please don't delay. It can't hurt to get another opinion. (((Hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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