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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 659811" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Hi, and welcome.</p><p> </p><p>The short answer: yes, and yes.</p><p>Let's see... 12+ years of mis-diagnosis. In the process, we got several smaller diagnoses that were correct and part of the problem (Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)), but not the key elements.</p><p>And medications. Well... let's just say that it will take a few years for the current psychiatrist to undo the mess created by the previous one.</p><p> </p><p>Anything on the autism spectrum is ideally caught early, because things get better with intensive early intervention. But all you can do is start when you know what you are dealing with. Has he ever been evaluated by an Occupational Therapist (OT)? They test for sensory and motor skills issues. Sometimes, we don't recognize the sensory issues - some are over-sensitive to certain things, others are under-sensitive. Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies that help, too. And Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff can be done in parallel with anything else - complementary, and accepted by the medical community. Sensory issues (and coordination challenges) are not unusual for people on the autism spectrum, but can exist as completely separate dxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 659811, member: 11791"] Hi, and welcome. The short answer: yes, and yes. Let's see... 12+ years of mis-diagnosis. In the process, we got several smaller diagnoses that were correct and part of the problem (Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)), but not the key elements. And medications. Well... let's just say that it will take a few years for the current psychiatrist to undo the mess created by the previous one. Anything on the autism spectrum is ideally caught early, because things get better with intensive early intervention. But all you can do is start when you know what you are dealing with. Has he ever been evaluated by an Occupational Therapist (OT)? They test for sensory and motor skills issues. Sometimes, we don't recognize the sensory issues - some are over-sensitive to certain things, others are under-sensitive. Occupational Therapist (OT) has therapies that help, too. And Occupational Therapist (OT) stuff can be done in parallel with anything else - complementary, and accepted by the medical community. Sensory issues (and coordination challenges) are not unusual for people on the autism spectrum, but can exist as completely separate dxes. [/QUOTE]
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