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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 635697" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>No, it's not a fix-all but it might be a fix-something - and that, I have come to see, is significant.</p><p></p><p>I think J already "knows" (ie in the way most kids know it, without having specifically been taught) how to socialise appropriately. What gets in the way is his inability to control his emotional impulses, his insufficient inhibition of reactions like getting angry, upset or hostile when things don't go the way he wants, etc. When that is not happening, he is playing and interacting like any other kid. I think... I suspect.... that this is one of the differences between Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and ADHD, for example. Most social situations are at the moment off limits to J, not because he doesn't know how to relate to people or talk to them but because he cannot control his hyperactivity. He is quite happy running over sofas at a party, for example, or rushing in and out of rooms banging into people but I am not - and neither are the other people there. So we rarely go out. Almost never go to a restaurant, unless it is sitting outside on the pavement. That is the kind of thing I meant.</p><p></p><p>One of the claims for the medications is that they compensate for brain functioning in certain areas so that a child has the kinds of brakes on their behaviour that most other people have. From all my reading and research, I now have some level of faith in the science of this and I am willing to give it a good try.</p><p></p><p>He does see a woman therapist (who is very good) though she has now gone on maternity leave until at least January.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 635697, member: 11227"] No, it's not a fix-all but it might be a fix-something - and that, I have come to see, is significant. I think J already "knows" (ie in the way most kids know it, without having specifically been taught) how to socialise appropriately. What gets in the way is his inability to control his emotional impulses, his insufficient inhibition of reactions like getting angry, upset or hostile when things don't go the way he wants, etc. When that is not happening, he is playing and interacting like any other kid. I think... I suspect.... that this is one of the differences between Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and ADHD, for example. Most social situations are at the moment off limits to J, not because he doesn't know how to relate to people or talk to them but because he cannot control his hyperactivity. He is quite happy running over sofas at a party, for example, or rushing in and out of rooms banging into people but I am not - and neither are the other people there. So we rarely go out. Almost never go to a restaurant, unless it is sitting outside on the pavement. That is the kind of thing I meant. One of the claims for the medications is that they compensate for brain functioning in certain areas so that a child has the kinds of brakes on their behaviour that most other people have. From all my reading and research, I now have some level of faith in the science of this and I am willing to give it a good try. He does see a woman therapist (who is very good) though she has now gone on maternity leave until at least January. [/QUOTE]
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