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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 394689" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>This child probably has organic brain damage from meth and alcohol. We have a child who tested positive for drugs at birth...we adopted him. He's on the autism spectrum with many life skill issues, but he's not a behavior problem.</p><p></p><p> Organic brain damage/Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/alcohol and drug affects mimic other things and are very hard to diagnose. If she drank at all, and bet she didn't abstain, alcohol can cause permanent damage. It often does. It's not reversible and you don't have to drink a lot to cause that damage. Meth...I can only imagine. </p><p></p><p>in my opinion you have a child who was damaged before he was born, then was thrown around a lot in his early, important attachment years. I don't want to say he's hopeless at his age, but we did adopt an 11 year old (who left at 13) who will never be ok due to his birthmother's early drug use and his lack of attachment...he was a young psychopath. I'd say SS is probably too if he has already sexually assaulted somebody. So did our ex-son (yes, we told CPS to take him when we found out he'd abused our two youngest). </p><p></p><p>I wish you luck. In all honesty, I don't know if this one can be helped much. Make sure you and hub are safe from both is violence and his allegation. And I really am not sure he can reason well enough to help what he does. Sad. Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 394689, member: 1550"] This child probably has organic brain damage from meth and alcohol. We have a child who tested positive for drugs at birth...we adopted him. He's on the autism spectrum with many life skill issues, but he's not a behavior problem. Organic brain damage/Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)/alcohol and drug affects mimic other things and are very hard to diagnose. If she drank at all, and bet she didn't abstain, alcohol can cause permanent damage. It often does. It's not reversible and you don't have to drink a lot to cause that damage. Meth...I can only imagine. in my opinion you have a child who was damaged before he was born, then was thrown around a lot in his early, important attachment years. I don't want to say he's hopeless at his age, but we did adopt an 11 year old (who left at 13) who will never be ok due to his birthmother's early drug use and his lack of attachment...he was a young psychopath. I'd say SS is probably too if he has already sexually assaulted somebody. So did our ex-son (yes, we told CPS to take him when we found out he'd abused our two youngest). I wish you luck. In all honesty, I don't know if this one can be helped much. Make sure you and hub are safe from both is violence and his allegation. And I really am not sure he can reason well enough to help what he does. Sad. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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