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How much do you tell your difficult child about their issues?
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<blockquote data-quote="ML" data-source="post: 240912"><p>I agree with Janna. Manster's diagnosis is very ambiguous and symptoms are ever-changing. I am pretty sure that he has Aspergers and even psychiatrist agrees with me based upon my sharing mostly, but she hasn't officially diagnosis him. She was of the opinion that it was irrelevant in terms of her medication approach. Fran once used a term that made a lot of sense and I still use it. Manster has a "brain wrinkle". The diagnosis on the books is ADHD and social, general and separation anxiety when he was 8. Oh and of course Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). Generally we talk about his "social anxiety, trouble doing new things, trouble paying attention and staying focused". But until the professionals can get it together I leave it vague for now as well. </p><p></p><p>Many of our kids are soo unique and diagnosis are fluid and ecompass more than one so it becomes hard to know which is the dominant one. I even sometimes get dissuaded into thinking "well maybe it really is bipolar". Then go back to thinking the label isn't as important as treating the symptoms. The one good reason for talking about it is that they can have a reason to explain why they feel "different". We have to teach them different isn't bad though explaining that to a tween isn't easy.</p><p></p><p>ML</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ML, post: 240912"] I agree with Janna. Manster's diagnosis is very ambiguous and symptoms are ever-changing. I am pretty sure that he has Aspergers and even psychiatrist agrees with me based upon my sharing mostly, but she hasn't officially diagnosis him. She was of the opinion that it was irrelevant in terms of her medication approach. Fran once used a term that made a lot of sense and I still use it. Manster has a "brain wrinkle". The diagnosis on the books is ADHD and social, general and separation anxiety when he was 8. Oh and of course Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). Generally we talk about his "social anxiety, trouble doing new things, trouble paying attention and staying focused". But until the professionals can get it together I leave it vague for now as well. Many of our kids are soo unique and diagnosis are fluid and ecompass more than one so it becomes hard to know which is the dominant one. I even sometimes get dissuaded into thinking "well maybe it really is bipolar". Then go back to thinking the label isn't as important as treating the symptoms. The one good reason for talking about it is that they can have a reason to explain why they feel "different". We have to teach them different isn't bad though explaining that to a tween isn't easy. ML [/QUOTE]
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