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Just a thought: It is so much less busy now than it used to be here.
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 683064" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>By the time I got here, first lurking and then as a member - the list of things we had tried was massive. Some things partially worked, others didn't work for us but I saw the logic. The boards had lots of families where those ideas might be valuable. But there was - and still is - almost nobody with a child like mine. Not in the archives, nowhere. The situation is unique enough that to tell the story would be identifying, and I can't afford to be identified.</p><p> </p><p>For those of us in Canada, evaluations is the ONLY key to getting help on any front. No diagnosis, absolutely no concessions at school, no support from doctors, no support from family either. You either have a "real" problem or you don't have a problem at all. (NOT - as we all know here - but that is the world I live in.) So yes, I would have been pushing evaluation. I wish we had gone private and done a comprehensive evaluation at age 8 or 10. It would have really helped - but it would have cost $5000 we didn't have. As it is now... we are part of the "failure to launch" picture, because we have a child who isn't launchable. Still searching for answers.</p><p> </p><p>Some of the ones who aren't here any more have left because, like me, their kid doesn't really fit here either. I've stayed because I don't have anywhere else to go. At least it gives me contact with other parents who at least understand that it isn't "just bad parenting" that makes our kids the way they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 683064, member: 11791"] By the time I got here, first lurking and then as a member - the list of things we had tried was massive. Some things partially worked, others didn't work for us but I saw the logic. The boards had lots of families where those ideas might be valuable. But there was - and still is - almost nobody with a child like mine. Not in the archives, nowhere. The situation is unique enough that to tell the story would be identifying, and I can't afford to be identified. For those of us in Canada, evaluations is the ONLY key to getting help on any front. No diagnosis, absolutely no concessions at school, no support from doctors, no support from family either. You either have a "real" problem or you don't have a problem at all. (NOT - as we all know here - but that is the world I live in.) So yes, I would have been pushing evaluation. I wish we had gone private and done a comprehensive evaluation at age 8 or 10. It would have really helped - but it would have cost $5000 we didn't have. As it is now... we are part of the "failure to launch" picture, because we have a child who isn't launchable. Still searching for answers. Some of the ones who aren't here any more have left because, like me, their kid doesn't really fit here either. I've stayed because I don't have anywhere else to go. At least it gives me contact with other parents who at least understand that it isn't "just bad parenting" that makes our kids the way they are. [/QUOTE]
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