PiscesMom
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hi all. thank you ALL for being here for me on this very emotional week. Monday I got home after visiting my son at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC). His diagnosis over the years - Conduct Disorder, Cannabis Addiction, Schizophreniform, Major Depressive Disorder with Possible Psychosis. His behavior got out of control when he was 13 and a half. Before that he was a very sweet boy. He is still a sweet boy. He was just being defiant. Very defiant.
Now they are saying they are looking at him being on the spectrum. Yesterday - Saturday morning when I talked to his therapist, she said that. I sort of did not hear, did not think she was right. Towards evening, it settled in my brain, and things began to make sense.
I am happy that he is not antisocial, etc. I feel terrible I didn't know. (in my defense he has been examined by all kinds of mental health professionals over the years, AND was in Special Education for a "language based processing disorder" since first grade.
He is really being treated well at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC). He will have a family visit this summer. OMG. My baby!!!!!!
I am almost too ashamed to write this. I feel like I should have known. But I want other parents/family/caretakers here to consider - maybe problem child has autism? It can be really hard to spot - i think he has what they used to call Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified. Atypical autism. The kind you don't really see until the teen years
Now they are saying they are looking at him being on the spectrum. Yesterday - Saturday morning when I talked to his therapist, she said that. I sort of did not hear, did not think she was right. Towards evening, it settled in my brain, and things began to make sense.
I am happy that he is not antisocial, etc. I feel terrible I didn't know. (in my defense he has been examined by all kinds of mental health professionals over the years, AND was in Special Education for a "language based processing disorder" since first grade.
He is really being treated well at his Residential Treatment Center (RTC). He will have a family visit this summer. OMG. My baby!!!!!!
I am almost too ashamed to write this. I feel like I should have known. But I want other parents/family/caretakers here to consider - maybe problem child has autism? It can be really hard to spot - i think he has what they used to call Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified. Atypical autism. The kind you don't really see until the teen years