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I need help: 6 year old son with Oppositional Defiant Disorder/Mood Disorder /ADHD
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 357466" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm with Marg. A school therapist can't rule out forms of autism...you need a private neuropsychologist for that. It sounds to me very much like he could be on the spectrum. Socially clueless kids with anger (frustration) and sensory issues (Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)) have big red flags for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). I wouldn't be so sure he has bipolar...they insisted that my son had it and he was on a slew of medications. They didn't help. He is actually on the autism spectrum, the very thing they told me he COULDN'T be...and now he is sixteen and doing great OFF medications and with school interventions. And, yes, he had Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) and still has terrible social issues (shyness to the max), but he is learning how to function better and his frustration levels are lower and he rarely acts out. I would see the Psychiatrist, but also a neuropsychologist. A psychiatrist could easily miss it if he's on the spectrum because he is looking for mental illness, not neurological differences in the brain. NeuroPsychs test kids in all areas of function and in my opinion do a better diagnostic job. School, by the way and in my opinion, are the absolute worse in diagnosing. I wouldn't trust a thing they said. A therapist is not educated enough to diagnose by the way. </p><p></p><p>I would explore this possibility, but you won't get any answers without going to a neuropsychologist and your son, like mine, may be misdiagnosed and end up for years on medications with bad side effects that he doesn't need. My motto is: Leave no stone unturned. </p><p></p><p>Good luck, no matter what you decide to do. And welcome to the board <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 357466, member: 1550"] I'm with Marg. A school therapist can't rule out forms of autism...you need a private neuropsychologist for that. It sounds to me very much like he could be on the spectrum. Socially clueless kids with anger (frustration) and sensory issues (Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)) have big red flags for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). I wouldn't be so sure he has bipolar...they insisted that my son had it and he was on a slew of medications. They didn't help. He is actually on the autism spectrum, the very thing they told me he COULDN'T be...and now he is sixteen and doing great OFF medications and with school interventions. And, yes, he had Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) and still has terrible social issues (shyness to the max), but he is learning how to function better and his frustration levels are lower and he rarely acts out. I would see the Psychiatrist, but also a neuropsychologist. A psychiatrist could easily miss it if he's on the spectrum because he is looking for mental illness, not neurological differences in the brain. NeuroPsychs test kids in all areas of function and in my opinion do a better diagnostic job. School, by the way and in my opinion, are the absolute worse in diagnosing. I wouldn't trust a thing they said. A therapist is not educated enough to diagnose by the way. I would explore this possibility, but you won't get any answers without going to a neuropsychologist and your son, like mine, may be misdiagnosed and end up for years on medications with bad side effects that he doesn't need. My motto is: Leave no stone unturned. Good luck, no matter what you decide to do. And welcome to the board :raspberry-tounge: [/QUOTE]
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