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<blockquote data-quote="Adizziedoll" data-source="post: 348671" data-attributes="member: 5436"><p>See, you guys are already teaching me things! Just to let you know Midwestmom, it wasn't a school evaluation, it was an outside evaluation from a Child/Adolescent psychiatrist, although the school did some testing as well.</p><p> </p><p>I knew I felt funny about this CD diagnosis. The feeling that I'm getting from you guys is that, this ODD is pretty much a general diagnosis to give younger kids <u>some</u> sort of label, possibly because they don't know what else to call it? Do I dare say a cop-out?</p><p> </p><p>It's funny because his father's thought was possible high-functioning autism. The eye contact has always troubled me. It's interesting because I recieved the autism sheet to fill out, saw many similarities, but almost instantly the psychiatric said "it's obviously not autism".</p><p> </p><p>I happy that I came here, and it's just amazing to me that you all have the same advice and thoughts about this. 2 out of 3 kids with the ADHD combo/ODD diagnosis end up really having Asperger's? That's just incredible to know.</p><p> </p><p>Now, I wasn't planning on doing this, but there are a few other things about him that may help? </p><p> </p><p>He has had problems with hoarding food in the middle of the night. It's pretty much diminshed, maybe because he sleeps upstairs now, but it literally got to the point where we had to make a lock for the fridge and the cabinets. It was anything: blocks of cream cheese, cereal, bread ... It was very strange. He still has a compulsive eating issue.</p><p> </p><p>He goes into these weird repetative episodes, where he keeps repeating the same sound or action over and over and over again until I have to stop him. I've also known a serious preference to organizing things, like the bottles in the shower were arranged in groups by color. Moving them would be a crisis.</p><p> </p><p>I still have to remind him to do the simplist things, the most disturbing one being that he wipes his own butt after he goes number 2. I have no idea if this is a normal stage kids go through or what, but it's a problem. Yet, one time at the babysitters he wiped his butt with his hand and wiped it on the wall. Needless to say that arrangement ended.</p><p> </p><p>He is flat out obsessed with the dogs. I guess it was a mistake to get them, but what's done is done and now I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. He is constantly smothering them, kicking his feet at them, quickly flashing his hands in their faces, teasing them. One is a much smaller dog, and I feel that he feels power over her, and is his target when he's angry. I was lucky to be 1/2 on the stairs when he decided to test out punting her down them. Call me a bad pet owner, but I would really like to solve this issue rather than get rid of them. They are part of my family too and we love them deeply.</p><p> </p><p>He's stolen from stores before and hid the items from me, which indicates he knows it's bad. He'd rather be sneaky as hope he doesn't get caught, (which i've caught on and he knows he'll get caught) and will lie right to my face that he plans on following the rule. 2 seconds later ...</p><p> </p><p>He is an extremely intelligant, creative, good boy. He can be in the middle of the most evil tantrum of all time, and if he sees me crying, snap! he's asking me what's wrong, petting my hair and telling me I look like an angel. So I know he's a genuinely amazing person inside. He even says, " I want to be good, but my brain just doesn't work." It's so sad to watch him struggle with himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adizziedoll, post: 348671, member: 5436"] See, you guys are already teaching me things! Just to let you know Midwestmom, it wasn't a school evaluation, it was an outside evaluation from a Child/Adolescent psychiatrist, although the school did some testing as well. I knew I felt funny about this CD diagnosis. The feeling that I'm getting from you guys is that, this ODD is pretty much a general diagnosis to give younger kids [U]some[/U] sort of label, possibly because they don't know what else to call it? Do I dare say a cop-out? It's funny because his father's thought was possible high-functioning autism. The eye contact has always troubled me. It's interesting because I recieved the autism sheet to fill out, saw many similarities, but almost instantly the psychiatric said "it's obviously not autism". I happy that I came here, and it's just amazing to me that you all have the same advice and thoughts about this. 2 out of 3 kids with the ADHD combo/ODD diagnosis end up really having Asperger's? That's just incredible to know. Now, I wasn't planning on doing this, but there are a few other things about him that may help? He has had problems with hoarding food in the middle of the night. It's pretty much diminshed, maybe because he sleeps upstairs now, but it literally got to the point where we had to make a lock for the fridge and the cabinets. It was anything: blocks of cream cheese, cereal, bread ... It was very strange. He still has a compulsive eating issue. He goes into these weird repetative episodes, where he keeps repeating the same sound or action over and over and over again until I have to stop him. I've also known a serious preference to organizing things, like the bottles in the shower were arranged in groups by color. Moving them would be a crisis. I still have to remind him to do the simplist things, the most disturbing one being that he wipes his own butt after he goes number 2. I have no idea if this is a normal stage kids go through or what, but it's a problem. Yet, one time at the babysitters he wiped his butt with his hand and wiped it on the wall. Needless to say that arrangement ended. He is flat out obsessed with the dogs. I guess it was a mistake to get them, but what's done is done and now I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. He is constantly smothering them, kicking his feet at them, quickly flashing his hands in their faces, teasing them. One is a much smaller dog, and I feel that he feels power over her, and is his target when he's angry. I was lucky to be 1/2 on the stairs when he decided to test out punting her down them. Call me a bad pet owner, but I would really like to solve this issue rather than get rid of them. They are part of my family too and we love them deeply. He's stolen from stores before and hid the items from me, which indicates he knows it's bad. He'd rather be sneaky as hope he doesn't get caught, (which i've caught on and he knows he'll get caught) and will lie right to my face that he plans on following the rule. 2 seconds later ... He is an extremely intelligant, creative, good boy. He can be in the middle of the most evil tantrum of all time, and if he sees me crying, snap! he's asking me what's wrong, petting my hair and telling me I look like an angel. So I know he's a genuinely amazing person inside. He even says, " I want to be good, but my brain just doesn't work." It's so sad to watch him struggle with himself. [/QUOTE]
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