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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 446041" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>Hm. difficult child 2 also doesn't fit well into anybody's category. I just went through doing his hx with the social worker at the MIND Institute (took more than 5 hours) and she kept saying "this is just like the deficits of kids with autism but clearly he isn't autistic". As in muttering it at least 10 times over the 5 hours. And I agree with her (and others) that he is not quite "autistic" but has considerable overlap with autism in the executive function deficits, in the inability to take another person's perspective and to some extent with language processing problems.</p><p></p><p>But he also has considerable mood lability (his psychiatrist of 4 years said "he is either unresponsive or waaaay over the top in his emotional responses"). I think he is anxious pretty much all of the time and that anxiety is driving a lot of his maladaptive behaviors at home.</p><p></p><p>It is also clear that he has some level of distorted thinking, particularly when it comes to family relationships. He has some trouble with peers too. His disordered thinking is mostly in the "ideas of reference" category. Not all the way to paranoia but definitely suspicious thinking happening.</p><p></p><p>He has been diagnosed by speech pathologist as being unable to take another person's perspective and his psychiatrist agrees. She says it is a developmental problem with his brain when I confess to feeling like it is "all my fault" and that it is NOT all my fault.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to e-mail the social worker at the MIND about this in case it is something that they might be able to diagnose.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the links.</p><p></p><p>Will keep you posted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 446041, member: 11920"] Hm. difficult child 2 also doesn't fit well into anybody's category. I just went through doing his hx with the social worker at the MIND Institute (took more than 5 hours) and she kept saying "this is just like the deficits of kids with autism but clearly he isn't autistic". As in muttering it at least 10 times over the 5 hours. And I agree with her (and others) that he is not quite "autistic" but has considerable overlap with autism in the executive function deficits, in the inability to take another person's perspective and to some extent with language processing problems. But he also has considerable mood lability (his psychiatrist of 4 years said "he is either unresponsive or waaaay over the top in his emotional responses"). I think he is anxious pretty much all of the time and that anxiety is driving a lot of his maladaptive behaviors at home. It is also clear that he has some level of distorted thinking, particularly when it comes to family relationships. He has some trouble with peers too. His disordered thinking is mostly in the "ideas of reference" category. Not all the way to paranoia but definitely suspicious thinking happening. He has been diagnosed by speech pathologist as being unable to take another person's perspective and his psychiatrist agrees. She says it is a developmental problem with his brain when I confess to feeling like it is "all my fault" and that it is NOT all my fault. I'm going to e-mail the social worker at the MIND about this in case it is something that they might be able to diagnose. Thanks for the links. Will keep you posted. [/QUOTE]
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