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Oh, I just thought of something... the first time I brought in my difficult child to the pediatrician and asked for stims... difficult child was crawling all over the dr, yanking off his eyeglasses, breaking his stethoscope, and shouting, and the pediatrician shouted over difficult child, "He's NORMAL! I'VE GOT 3 BOYS AND THEY WERE ALL LIKE THIS!"

I pleaded, "Can't you give him something?"

He said, "NO!"

I said, "Can't you give ME something?"

He said, "A good bottle of wine!"


It took another 3 yrs and a meltdown in front of this guy's partner (my difficult child, not I, had the meltdown, LOL!) to give him an idea of what I was talking about... and another yr on top of that to convince my husband. The behavior that seemed normal for a 4-yr-old was not normal for a 9-yr-old.


It's a long, long winding road...


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