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<blockquote data-quote="brokendown" data-source="post: 148690" data-attributes="member: 5124"><p>Wow. Thank you ALL for the immediate support and really helpful suggestions. I read through them this morning just before we left for yet another appointment with one of his behavioral psychiatrists and put them to use. One thing I told him was that I am tired of having all of these pros tell me "no one knows your child better than you do" and then downplaying some of the scary things that I've seen. My son is exceptional at this game and has a genius IQ -- one of the things we learned via the hospital stay. But he can control his behavior and was pretty much a model patient for the week. (Interestingly enough, he never once begged to come home. I think he saw it as a "vacation" from school, which he now hates.) I told him that I'm tired of the psychobabble and that I am seriously afraid that my son will seriously hurt someone. Until now, he's always been mean and a bully, but he's stuck to psychological torments. He's uncannily adept at identifying the other kids' weaknesses and torturing them verbally - but always under the teacher's radar. In recent months, however, he's gotten into kicking and hitting the other kids. We are trying to keep him mainstream because he is so bright (easy straight A's when he feels like it), but the school is obviously not too happy with him. We have an IEP in place and he's working with the school psychologist, etc., but I'm afraid he's going to blow one of these days. Anyway, I think the doctor really listened to me for the first time. I mentioned the neuropsychologist workup (thank you all!) and he has ordered that (a daylong neuropsychologist evaluation), an EEG and an MRI. FINALLY, someone is going to do something proactive and rule out any of the "easy" causes. You would think they would have done that at the hospital, but you know how it goes. So, at least we have a gameplan. In case you can't tell, I'm feeling a little better today and I have you all to thank. I'm sure I'll be here venting when I need to! Thanks so much!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brokendown, post: 148690, member: 5124"] Wow. Thank you ALL for the immediate support and really helpful suggestions. I read through them this morning just before we left for yet another appointment with one of his behavioral psychiatrists and put them to use. One thing I told him was that I am tired of having all of these pros tell me "no one knows your child better than you do" and then downplaying some of the scary things that I've seen. My son is exceptional at this game and has a genius IQ -- one of the things we learned via the hospital stay. But he can control his behavior and was pretty much a model patient for the week. (Interestingly enough, he never once begged to come home. I think he saw it as a "vacation" from school, which he now hates.) I told him that I'm tired of the psychobabble and that I am seriously afraid that my son will seriously hurt someone. Until now, he's always been mean and a bully, but he's stuck to psychological torments. He's uncannily adept at identifying the other kids' weaknesses and torturing them verbally - but always under the teacher's radar. In recent months, however, he's gotten into kicking and hitting the other kids. We are trying to keep him mainstream because he is so bright (easy straight A's when he feels like it), but the school is obviously not too happy with him. We have an IEP in place and he's working with the school psychologist, etc., but I'm afraid he's going to blow one of these days. Anyway, I think the doctor really listened to me for the first time. I mentioned the neuropsychologist workup (thank you all!) and he has ordered that (a daylong neuropsychologist evaluation), an EEG and an MRI. FINALLY, someone is going to do something proactive and rule out any of the "easy" causes. You would think they would have done that at the hospital, but you know how it goes. So, at least we have a gameplan. In case you can't tell, I'm feeling a little better today and I have you all to thank. I'm sure I'll be here venting when I need to! Thanks so much! [/QUOTE]
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