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I give. Will be asking for medications, I guess.
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<blockquote data-quote="OpenWindow" data-source="post: 169092" data-attributes="member: 45"><p>It's so frustrating! When we lived in St. Louis, we took difficult child to an autism clinic and they said he could be Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but they couldn't be sure enough to qualify him for the program. We did find a social skills/group therapy provider we paid out of pocket - I think they charged on a sliding scale depending on income. Although they didn't specialize in the spectrum, it did help difficult child a lot. </p><p></p><p>Deciding to medicate was one of the hardest things we've ever had to do. I was very anti-medication. The only way I could agree to it was to look at it as a trial. It was easy to look at it like this with a stimulant, because you can tell the first day whether it's going to work or not. And since it leaves their system quickly, you can tell the difference between when they are medicated or not. Our difficult child is still on a stimulant, and I can tell from the days we forget to give him his medicine, that it is working and it is worth the risk. He would never have survived school this far without it. </p><p></p><p>You're right that the medications may not teach him that kids don't play with him because he's mean to them (a BIG reason difficult child still has no real friends is because he doesn't understand that), but it does slow him down enough for him to not be as impulsive. He's a lot less obnoxious and the neighborhood kids are able to put up with him a lot more easily. While kids don't seek him out to play with him, they don't try to get away from him like they used to. That's been our experience.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Linda</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OpenWindow, post: 169092, member: 45"] It's so frustrating! When we lived in St. Louis, we took difficult child to an autism clinic and they said he could be Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), but they couldn't be sure enough to qualify him for the program. We did find a social skills/group therapy provider we paid out of pocket - I think they charged on a sliding scale depending on income. Although they didn't specialize in the spectrum, it did help difficult child a lot. Deciding to medicate was one of the hardest things we've ever had to do. I was very anti-medication. The only way I could agree to it was to look at it as a trial. It was easy to look at it like this with a stimulant, because you can tell the first day whether it's going to work or not. And since it leaves their system quickly, you can tell the difference between when they are medicated or not. Our difficult child is still on a stimulant, and I can tell from the days we forget to give him his medicine, that it is working and it is worth the risk. He would never have survived school this far without it. You're right that the medications may not teach him that kids don't play with him because he's mean to them (a BIG reason difficult child still has no real friends is because he doesn't understand that), but it does slow him down enough for him to not be as impulsive. He's a lot less obnoxious and the neighborhood kids are able to put up with him a lot more easily. While kids don't seek him out to play with him, they don't try to get away from him like they used to. That's been our experience. Linda [/QUOTE]
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