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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 573478"><p>I am dittoing what Buddy said: My difficult child 1 carried the ODD diagnosis for 3 years before the REAL diagnosis was finally figured out. The way the schools handled ANY behaviors was with a heavy hand and "we have to show him who's boss" mentality because "kids with ODD do what they do on purpose". In difficult child 1's case, it led to the worst depression I ever want to see. That diagnosis almost killed him. I was so glad when the ODD was replaced with the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis. It made so much sense once I realized that he wasn't defiant on purpose, there were some serious thinking errors and struggles with doing what he was told to do the minute he was told to do it. He isn't able to switch gears like that. As Buddy said, any Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis pretty much has ADD/ADHD, anxiety, ODD, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in some form as symptoms. I would accept the "high-functioning autism" diagnosis over ODD any day.</p><p></p><p>As for medications, difficult child 1 can't take stims (imagine a 4 year old on a drug high). Other than that, we've had no problems with the nonstims and behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 573478"] I am dittoing what Buddy said: My difficult child 1 carried the ODD diagnosis for 3 years before the REAL diagnosis was finally figured out. The way the schools handled ANY behaviors was with a heavy hand and "we have to show him who's boss" mentality because "kids with ODD do what they do on purpose". In difficult child 1's case, it led to the worst depression I ever want to see. That diagnosis almost killed him. I was so glad when the ODD was replaced with the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis. It made so much sense once I realized that he wasn't defiant on purpose, there were some serious thinking errors and struggles with doing what he was told to do the minute he was told to do it. He isn't able to switch gears like that. As Buddy said, any Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis pretty much has ADD/ADHD, anxiety, ODD, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in some form as symptoms. I would accept the "high-functioning autism" diagnosis over ODD any day. As for medications, difficult child 1 can't take stims (imagine a 4 year old on a drug high). Other than that, we've had no problems with the nonstims and behavior. [/QUOTE]
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