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<blockquote data-quote="hopeful" data-source="post: 98042" data-attributes="member: 4311"><p>"He doesn't get frustrated so easy because he wants to, he isn't overstimulated by big groups of people because he wants to be. Once I realized that and started thinking about what can I do for him to make things better or at least more manageable it was good."</p><p></p><p>These are words of wisdom... Somewhere inside their little bodies they are noticing the snide comments, the looks of shame and frustration, they understand that people don't like them and they feel bad about it. </p><p></p><p>When my daughter first went on ridlin she was six. Every morning it was a fight to get her to take it and I was sick with guilt and anxiety. At the end of the first week on medications she came running to the fence where we met after school. I thought immediately that something was up because she was running really fast and looked really upset. She hit the fence, climbed over it and threw her arms around my legs. (she wasn't physically affectionate so this surprised me too) She burst into tears, deep sobs and I croached down and held her for a moment. She looked up at me, eyes swimming in tears and said, "mommy I never got in trouble in school once this week..." Then she raced to the van and yelled at her brother to get out of her seat. She forgot the moment so quickly that I wasn't sure it happened. In that moment I changed inside, my resentment eased up, my heart swelled and I knew I could do it. It wasn't personal and she did care, she just couldn't help it. Her brother a year older explained it to one of his buddies in this way, "its like she has no legs. we wouldn't ask her to run if she had no legs, right? so we can't expect her to stop being the way she is... she just can't help it."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hopeful, post: 98042, member: 4311"] "He doesn't get frustrated so easy because he wants to, he isn't overstimulated by big groups of people because he wants to be. Once I realized that and started thinking about what can I do for him to make things better or at least more manageable it was good." These are words of wisdom... Somewhere inside their little bodies they are noticing the snide comments, the looks of shame and frustration, they understand that people don't like them and they feel bad about it. When my daughter first went on ridlin she was six. Every morning it was a fight to get her to take it and I was sick with guilt and anxiety. At the end of the first week on medications she came running to the fence where we met after school. I thought immediately that something was up because she was running really fast and looked really upset. She hit the fence, climbed over it and threw her arms around my legs. (she wasn't physically affectionate so this surprised me too) She burst into tears, deep sobs and I croached down and held her for a moment. She looked up at me, eyes swimming in tears and said, "mommy I never got in trouble in school once this week..." Then she raced to the van and yelled at her brother to get out of her seat. She forgot the moment so quickly that I wasn't sure it happened. In that moment I changed inside, my resentment eased up, my heart swelled and I knew I could do it. It wasn't personal and she did care, she just couldn't help it. Her brother a year older explained it to one of his buddies in this way, "its like she has no legs. we wouldn't ask her to run if she had no legs, right? so we can't expect her to stop being the way she is... she just can't help it." [/QUOTE]
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