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<blockquote data-quote="somerset" data-source="post: 491104" data-attributes="member: 13320"><p>Thank you all so much! I don't really have any other support system, so it means a lot to me to be accepted here. In answer to some of your questions: I'm planning to post separately about finding a therapist and 504/IEP possibilities. The school that gave us a hard time was the middle school, which she's out of now. difficult child begged me not to take her out of the gifted program there and put her in the regular program there. The kids in each program looked down on each other, and she felt it would be humiliating and she would be separated from her friends. Since she'd already gone through a major problem with her best friends, and they had finally made up, I didn't want to put her through that. I didn't want to take away one of the positive things in her life. By the time she was ready to accept such a change, school was almost over.</p><p>We tried home schooling during the summer, and it was a disaster. She just wouldn't do the work, got sick every time we were supposed to go see the teacher, which was only twice a week and the work was actually harder! Lots of projects. She has told me she has trouble doing work at home, but not at school. I know she has social fears, but she is underneath such a social person, and seeing her friends was important. Maybe an online school would be better, since she loves her laptop. The home school we used had booklets. I don't know any more. I don't think we'll get anywhere til we find the medications that works for her and won't make her sick.</p><p></p><p>My therapy - I have Kaiser and can't afford to go out of the system, esp since I've had to do that for difficult child. I have a great therapist and have been seeing her for a long time, which is unheard of at Kaiser. However, I'm lucky if I see her every two weeks. Usually I have to wait 6 weeks between appts. This time, I saw her in November and won't see her again til mid-January. I really need a higher dose of my medications, but can't tolerate the side effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somerset, post: 491104, member: 13320"] Thank you all so much! I don't really have any other support system, so it means a lot to me to be accepted here. In answer to some of your questions: I'm planning to post separately about finding a therapist and 504/IEP possibilities. The school that gave us a hard time was the middle school, which she's out of now. difficult child begged me not to take her out of the gifted program there and put her in the regular program there. The kids in each program looked down on each other, and she felt it would be humiliating and she would be separated from her friends. Since she'd already gone through a major problem with her best friends, and they had finally made up, I didn't want to put her through that. I didn't want to take away one of the positive things in her life. By the time she was ready to accept such a change, school was almost over. We tried home schooling during the summer, and it was a disaster. She just wouldn't do the work, got sick every time we were supposed to go see the teacher, which was only twice a week and the work was actually harder! Lots of projects. She has told me she has trouble doing work at home, but not at school. I know she has social fears, but she is underneath such a social person, and seeing her friends was important. Maybe an online school would be better, since she loves her laptop. The home school we used had booklets. I don't know any more. I don't think we'll get anywhere til we find the medications that works for her and won't make her sick. My therapy - I have Kaiser and can't afford to go out of the system, esp since I've had to do that for difficult child. I have a great therapist and have been seeing her for a long time, which is unheard of at Kaiser. However, I'm lucky if I see her every two weeks. Usually I have to wait 6 weeks between appts. This time, I saw her in November and won't see her again til mid-January. I really need a higher dose of my medications, but can't tolerate the side effects. [/QUOTE]
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