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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 422607" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I tried the glove puppet technique with J but it wasn't a great success - in that it did initially get him to do what I wanted in a playful rather than conflictual way (put on his dressing gown to go outside in the cool morning air) but then he just wanted to repeat the whole thing endlessly as a game... I think the "can you beat me to the..." may work better.</p><p>I'm beginning to feel that... I have to accept that Jacob has ADHD, that something is going on with him that is not "normal" and that although I don't want it to be so, it very probably is so... I found an article on the net, something written by a British teacher about children with ADHD and it is him to a T. Everything. That has to be more than coincidence. I do also feel he has some sensory problems, which he has had from babyhood, that I do not fully understand yet. I am fairly certain he does not have Asperger's Syndrome - no problem with eye contact, no obsessive play rituals or habits, no problem with understanding irony or humour and so on. </p><p>And I am feeling... where do I go from here... beyond saying to the child psychiatrist "Okay, I think you're probably right, I think he probably does have ADHD"... what is the outlook for a child with ADHD, what expectations can one have? Basically, I want J to understand social codes and norms in the way other kids do... is this feasible, realistic? I want him to understand that he can't swear at me like he does, that he needs to listen to me when I ask him to do something that is potentially dangerous to him, that he cannot run round like a maniac in people's houses, that it is not appropriate for him to talk to me as if he is the grown-up and I am the child... he has made progress in certain things and he has this really sweet, endearing, responsive side that kind of makes everything feel like its not so desperate but... I guess I feel a little scared for his future right now. Or, if I'm honest, a lot... </p><p>It is just because it is new. Just because I'm really accepting something for the first time that I've been unwilling to accept, hoping against hope it wasn't true... but I think it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 422607, member: 11227"] I tried the glove puppet technique with J but it wasn't a great success - in that it did initially get him to do what I wanted in a playful rather than conflictual way (put on his dressing gown to go outside in the cool morning air) but then he just wanted to repeat the whole thing endlessly as a game... I think the "can you beat me to the..." may work better. I'm beginning to feel that... I have to accept that Jacob has ADHD, that something is going on with him that is not "normal" and that although I don't want it to be so, it very probably is so... I found an article on the net, something written by a British teacher about children with ADHD and it is him to a T. Everything. That has to be more than coincidence. I do also feel he has some sensory problems, which he has had from babyhood, that I do not fully understand yet. I am fairly certain he does not have Asperger's Syndrome - no problem with eye contact, no obsessive play rituals or habits, no problem with understanding irony or humour and so on. And I am feeling... where do I go from here... beyond saying to the child psychiatrist "Okay, I think you're probably right, I think he probably does have ADHD"... what is the outlook for a child with ADHD, what expectations can one have? Basically, I want J to understand social codes and norms in the way other kids do... is this feasible, realistic? I want him to understand that he can't swear at me like he does, that he needs to listen to me when I ask him to do something that is potentially dangerous to him, that he cannot run round like a maniac in people's houses, that it is not appropriate for him to talk to me as if he is the grown-up and I am the child... he has made progress in certain things and he has this really sweet, endearing, responsive side that kind of makes everything feel like its not so desperate but... I guess I feel a little scared for his future right now. Or, if I'm honest, a lot... It is just because it is new. Just because I'm really accepting something for the first time that I've been unwilling to accept, hoping against hope it wasn't true... but I think it is. [/QUOTE]
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