Jamieh
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My son goes to vision therapy every monday. He doesn't like it because it is pretty difficult work. They do a lot of eye exercises that are hard for him to do because the muscles in his eyes are very weak. He also has really low muscle tone in his arms and legs so they do some exercises for that too. But he gets very difficult to deal with sometimes. The therapist does not really seem to believe in his ADHD or Asperger's. *eyeroll* She says that if his eyes were working properly he wouldn't have ADHD. But this was recommended for him as an alternative for surgery. His left eye turns into towards his nose. Well today he got very upset with the therapist because she took his glasses off and asked him to look at something without them. His vision is awful without his glasses and he couldn't see whatever it was. So she tried to do a diff exercise and put a plastic pair of glasses on him that did not have nose pads...this is a big deal to him. he refuses to wear any glasses of any kind unless they have nose pads. He flipped out. She got frustrated and came and got me to come back. I tried to talk him into finishing his session but he flat our refused. And to be honest this therapist is in no way patient with him. She becomes very snippy and annoyed with his quirks. She is nice enough but I can tell she is just waiting for his hour to be up. I am paying for this therapy but part of me wants to just say screw it and do the surgery. And getting this kid into a hospital...omg. He'd have a heart attack before we even got in the door. He has a phobia of any kind of medicine and is terrified of any and all doctors. any advice? I'm at a loss here.