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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 729256" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Welcome! I am glad you found us! It is great to have a community of people to support you who understand what it is like to have a child with challenges. We have all struggled with this.</p><p></p><p>I have to say that I wonder about who diagnosed your child and why. What you describe is NOT what I know about antisocial personality disorder. Especially not those people I have met with the disorder. </p><p></p><p>Please understand that doctors see a snapshot of you, or a series of snapshots of you. They don't see the whole you, or even the most of you that your family and friends see. So the doctors can and do make mistakes when they have accurate tests that give them very clear cut answers as to what the problems are. Heck, I had chicken pox and a doctor told my mother and I that I had mono. Two hours later I was COVERED with pox and the "zit" that the doctor had popped was now known to be a chicken pox. He had ALL the right information, including a surprising number of kids at my junior high. You are not dealing with symptoms as clear cut as chicken pox. Mental health is much harder to diagnose. It is entirely possible that your son has something else going on. Clearly something is going on, but maybe it isn't this. I don't know. I do know that several people suggested that my son has antisocial personality disorder when he was 7. Mostly because he didn't always fit in and he didn't really care or even notice. Of course he didn't fit in and sometimes didn't notice - he has high functioning autism!!! But he seemed cold and to only "charm" people when he wanted something. </p><p></p><p>Do your instincts say that the Antisocial Personality Disorder is the right diagnosis? The dependent Personality Disorder? I would listen to your instincts. You know your kid better than the doctors do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 729256, member: 1233"] Welcome! I am glad you found us! It is great to have a community of people to support you who understand what it is like to have a child with challenges. We have all struggled with this. I have to say that I wonder about who diagnosed your child and why. What you describe is NOT what I know about antisocial personality disorder. Especially not those people I have met with the disorder. Please understand that doctors see a snapshot of you, or a series of snapshots of you. They don't see the whole you, or even the most of you that your family and friends see. So the doctors can and do make mistakes when they have accurate tests that give them very clear cut answers as to what the problems are. Heck, I had chicken pox and a doctor told my mother and I that I had mono. Two hours later I was COVERED with pox and the "zit" that the doctor had popped was now known to be a chicken pox. He had ALL the right information, including a surprising number of kids at my junior high. You are not dealing with symptoms as clear cut as chicken pox. Mental health is much harder to diagnose. It is entirely possible that your son has something else going on. Clearly something is going on, but maybe it isn't this. I don't know. I do know that several people suggested that my son has antisocial personality disorder when he was 7. Mostly because he didn't always fit in and he didn't really care or even notice. Of course he didn't fit in and sometimes didn't notice - he has high functioning autism!!! But he seemed cold and to only "charm" people when he wanted something. Do your instincts say that the Antisocial Personality Disorder is the right diagnosis? The dependent Personality Disorder? I would listen to your instincts. You know your kid better than the doctors do. [/QUOTE]
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