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<blockquote data-quote="Janna" data-source="post: 108201" data-attributes="member: 2737"><p>Wow, I love Marg, and there isn't anything I can add on the Autism topic LOL! LOL!</p><p></p><p>Marg, I need to PM you, speaking of Autism....</p><p></p><p>anyway - I wanted to touch on your original question of "can the diagnosis change?", because well, I think my son Dylan is the expert on changing diagnosis LOL!</p><p></p><p>He started out at 3 years old with ADHD. Then ADHD, ODD. Then many different mood problem diagnosis (see profile), then in 2005 he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. After 6 years I thought we finally had the answer. He was put on Lithium and Abilify, and did very well on that combo for some time.</p><p></p><p>Then, the medications died. He crashed, again. My son has ALOT of the same traits as you mention of your daughter, and displays ALOT of eye contact, always.</p><p></p><p>I put him into a residential treatment facility (he lives and goes to school there, it's a 10 month program) and they changed his diagnosis yet again. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified, a form of Autism, no longer Bipolar.</p><p></p><p>As time has gone on I could have seen all the diagnosis he's been given. I thought I saw mania with the Bipolar. I believed "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" because he was explosive. I believed ADHD, and I believed ODD and I really thought, at one point or another, he was this or that, or whatever. And maybe he's a mix of all of them. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>The Autism diagnosis for your daughter, if she is a true Aspie, will help her tremendously over time. Marg gave you all that. But I wanted you to know that yes, things can change. She is only 5. She is going to grow and mature and things that look one way now may not look that way when she's 11. There is no guarantee that because now she's diagnosed Asbergers that she will carry that diagnosis forever (but definately use the diagnosis now for interventions early!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janna, post: 108201, member: 2737"] Wow, I love Marg, and there isn't anything I can add on the Autism topic LOL! LOL! Marg, I need to PM you, speaking of Autism.... anyway - I wanted to touch on your original question of "can the diagnosis change?", because well, I think my son Dylan is the expert on changing diagnosis LOL! He started out at 3 years old with ADHD. Then ADHD, ODD. Then many different mood problem diagnosis (see profile), then in 2005 he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. After 6 years I thought we finally had the answer. He was put on Lithium and Abilify, and did very well on that combo for some time. Then, the medications died. He crashed, again. My son has ALOT of the same traits as you mention of your daughter, and displays ALOT of eye contact, always. I put him into a residential treatment facility (he lives and goes to school there, it's a 10 month program) and they changed his diagnosis yet again. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified, a form of Autism, no longer Bipolar. As time has gone on I could have seen all the diagnosis he's been given. I thought I saw mania with the Bipolar. I believed "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" because he was explosive. I believed ADHD, and I believed ODD and I really thought, at one point or another, he was this or that, or whatever. And maybe he's a mix of all of them. Who knows? The Autism diagnosis for your daughter, if she is a true Aspie, will help her tremendously over time. Marg gave you all that. But I wanted you to know that yes, things can change. She is only 5. She is going to grow and mature and things that look one way now may not look that way when she's 11. There is no guarantee that because now she's diagnosed Asbergers that she will carry that diagnosis forever (but definately use the diagnosis now for interventions early!). [/QUOTE]
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