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Our long awaited appointment with Developmental Pediatrician / GARS-2 ?
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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 529134"><p>Jules, you just described my difficult child 1. He is very intelligent and gets along very well with many kids in organized activities. He's very social BUT he tends to only socialize with kids with interests exactly like his. If a friend moves to other interests, difficult child 1 finds a different friend and doesn't do anything with the old one unless that one changes back to his interest. Know what I mean?? The only difference is Scouts and team sports. Those are structured activities and they have that activity in common at that point in time. I was actually relieved to get the Asperger's diagnosis. It made things so much easier for me to deal with because I realized difficult child 1 thinks very differently. It hurt me when I realized he was being "punished" for being oppositional and defiant when it truly was out of his control because he didn't understand every aspect of everything he was being told. difficult child 1's biggest issues that led to the ODD diagnosis was that he had to know WHY about everything. The world was not making sense to him so he just refused. At his age, it was better than admitting that he didn't get it when it was obvious EVERYBODY else did. The damage done to him by the ODD diagnosis was actually much worse than the Asperger's diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>I hope you are able to come to grips with the diagnosis if that turns out to be the case. Our neuropsychologist had reviewed all of difficult child 1's records from everywhere before we ever had an appointment with him. Also, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) variations are usually quite obvious to people that have experience with the disorder. Keep that in mind. {{{{HUGS}}}}</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 529134"] Jules, you just described my difficult child 1. He is very intelligent and gets along very well with many kids in organized activities. He's very social BUT he tends to only socialize with kids with interests exactly like his. If a friend moves to other interests, difficult child 1 finds a different friend and doesn't do anything with the old one unless that one changes back to his interest. Know what I mean?? The only difference is Scouts and team sports. Those are structured activities and they have that activity in common at that point in time. I was actually relieved to get the Asperger's diagnosis. It made things so much easier for me to deal with because I realized difficult child 1 thinks very differently. It hurt me when I realized he was being "punished" for being oppositional and defiant when it truly was out of his control because he didn't understand every aspect of everything he was being told. difficult child 1's biggest issues that led to the ODD diagnosis was that he had to know WHY about everything. The world was not making sense to him so he just refused. At his age, it was better than admitting that he didn't get it when it was obvious EVERYBODY else did. The damage done to him by the ODD diagnosis was actually much worse than the Asperger's diagnosis. I hope you are able to come to grips with the diagnosis if that turns out to be the case. Our neuropsychologist had reviewed all of difficult child 1's records from everywhere before we ever had an appointment with him. Also, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) variations are usually quite obvious to people that have experience with the disorder. Keep that in mind. {{{{HUGS}}}} [/QUOTE]
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