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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 599485" data-attributes="member: 15799"><p>I'm with the others. He sounds just like my son at that age. difficult child 1 had a really hard time in school and was almost kicked out of kindergarten after only 2 days because he became violent. It turned out that his "fight or flight" response was in high gear. If I had known then that he was on the autism spectrum (no one EVER suggested that possibility), things would have been very different for us, saving us a lot of heartache and incorrect medications causing even worse problems. difficult child 1 had a hard time with chaos and noise and didn't get the whole socially appropriate thing. </p><p></p><p>I really think you need to demand a referral from your family doctor for a neuropsychologist evaluation or a comprehensive evaluation by a team. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can be diagnosed early and there are so many interventions out there that work wonders. Another thing you might want to consider is a thorough Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation by someone experienced with kids on the spectrum. difficult child 1 has many sensory issues that only our GOOD Occupational Therapist (OT) (out of the 4 we tried) figured out after several sessions and many different evaluations. He can't handle loud noises (unless he's a part of making them), people touching him (unless it's a game he enjoys), the feel of certain fabrics, certain smells (coffee breath being the worst), etc. She even figured out that he has a hard time sensing when his pencil is on the paper to write and black words on white paper look like wiggly worms to him. She did not leave a stone unturned. </p><p></p><p>You are doing the best you can with what you have been given. Give yourself a break. Your biggest goals should be to learn to see things from a different perspective (learn to see things the way he sees them), research Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in it's entirety (not just Asperger's), get the evaluations and then services to help him, and ease up on him and yourself.</p><p></p><p>You've come to the right place. Stick around here and you can even keep your sanity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 599485, member: 15799"] I'm with the others. He sounds just like my son at that age. difficult child 1 had a really hard time in school and was almost kicked out of kindergarten after only 2 days because he became violent. It turned out that his "fight or flight" response was in high gear. If I had known then that he was on the autism spectrum (no one EVER suggested that possibility), things would have been very different for us, saving us a lot of heartache and incorrect medications causing even worse problems. difficult child 1 had a hard time with chaos and noise and didn't get the whole socially appropriate thing. I really think you need to demand a referral from your family doctor for a neuropsychologist evaluation or a comprehensive evaluation by a team. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can be diagnosed early and there are so many interventions out there that work wonders. Another thing you might want to consider is a thorough Occupational Therapist (OT) evaluation by someone experienced with kids on the spectrum. difficult child 1 has many sensory issues that only our GOOD Occupational Therapist (OT) (out of the 4 we tried) figured out after several sessions and many different evaluations. He can't handle loud noises (unless he's a part of making them), people touching him (unless it's a game he enjoys), the feel of certain fabrics, certain smells (coffee breath being the worst), etc. She even figured out that he has a hard time sensing when his pencil is on the paper to write and black words on white paper look like wiggly worms to him. She did not leave a stone unturned. You are doing the best you can with what you have been given. Give yourself a break. Your biggest goals should be to learn to see things from a different perspective (learn to see things the way he sees them), research Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in it's entirety (not just Asperger's), get the evaluations and then services to help him, and ease up on him and yourself. You've come to the right place. Stick around here and you can even keep your sanity. [/QUOTE]
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