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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 515790" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, this certainly did look like "hyper focus". I was impressed with the determination to finish. J's ability to concentrate is fairly good, in general - he does it at school and I think quite likes the work there, really, and he will play with his toys in long, imaginative games, inventing lots of dialogue (which I imagine involves concentration?), will sit and "read" his Spiderman cartoon books for long periods. Then when he is not doing this kind of thing, he will be spinning around, bouncing up and down on the sofa, trying to swing off the stairs... The hyperactivity definitely seems more proncounced than the attention deficit, though that is definitely there when he is not <strong>interested</strong> in something. Like in eating food... </p><p>This is not an exact science, I realise. Nonetheless an aspect of J's "profile" puzzles me. I have made an appointment for him to start seeing a neuro-paediatrician at the local hospital and I am hopeful that this will lead to a concrete diagnosis. The psychiatrist he very occasionally sees at the moment is a bit of a joke really and says the origin of his problems is that I am divorced and the father in Morocco, so J is trying to "be the boss of the house"... He's not interested in neuro-biological explanations and kind of dismissed them.</p><p>I'm stabbing in the dark but I kind of wonder whether this sensory processing disorder - which <strong>nobody</strong> here has heard of! - could account for J's symptoms alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 515790, member: 11227"] Yes, this certainly did look like "hyper focus". I was impressed with the determination to finish. J's ability to concentrate is fairly good, in general - he does it at school and I think quite likes the work there, really, and he will play with his toys in long, imaginative games, inventing lots of dialogue (which I imagine involves concentration?), will sit and "read" his Spiderman cartoon books for long periods. Then when he is not doing this kind of thing, he will be spinning around, bouncing up and down on the sofa, trying to swing off the stairs... The hyperactivity definitely seems more proncounced than the attention deficit, though that is definitely there when he is not [B]interested[/B] in something. Like in eating food... This is not an exact science, I realise. Nonetheless an aspect of J's "profile" puzzles me. I have made an appointment for him to start seeing a neuro-paediatrician at the local hospital and I am hopeful that this will lead to a concrete diagnosis. The psychiatrist he very occasionally sees at the moment is a bit of a joke really and says the origin of his problems is that I am divorced and the father in Morocco, so J is trying to "be the boss of the house"... He's not interested in neuro-biological explanations and kind of dismissed them. I'm stabbing in the dark but I kind of wonder whether this sensory processing disorder - which [B]nobody[/B] here has heard of! - could account for J's symptoms alone. [/QUOTE]
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