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<blockquote data-quote="4timmy" data-source="post: 414857" data-attributes="member: 6553"><p>Did he sit still while the doctor was talking to you and examining him? </p><p></p><p>Your stories reminded me of the time I took difficult child to Pee Wee Soccer. All of the other little kids gathered anxiously around the coach when she called them in to teach them how to hold or kick the ball. They were all so intensely focused and interested in what she was showing them. My difficult child???? He had wandered off to the corner of the field to put one of those big orange cones on his head......God love 'em. I knew then sports really wasn't gonna be in his future.</p><p></p><p>Taking difficult child to the doctor or anywhere for that matter was a nightmare. My difficult child would usually have every single drawer in the examination room emptied and all the paper torn off the examination bench while we sat for another 15 to 20 minutes waiting on the doctor to come in. It always seemed like we were in that room for hours! lol </p><p></p><p>I just tend to believe there are just some situations and environments that capture difficult child's interest more than others. This adds to question the whole Video Game question I hear all the time...."how can he sit for hours and play a video game" but can't sit for 5 minutes to do his homework? The answer is (supposedly) that he's engaged in a stimulating, structured game where the rules and goals and what is expected is well known to him. My difficult child is most calm when he doesn't feel pressure or fear of the unknown....... and no to your last question, my guess is no from what I've observed in my difficult child. On top of that, each child will react differently depending upon his sensitivity to things. Also, if medications are diagnosed correctly and at the right levels, you won't witness "quiet" and "unobtrusive"....maybe a little the first week, but that's it. </p><p></p><p>I will add one last thing and that is I see somewhat of a trend here on this post it seems with the intial diagnosis of ADHD/ODD. My difficult child received the same diagnosis at 5 and then when he was ten, he displayed characteristics of Autism, Bi-Polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Asbergers. I'm really close to being convinced 100% that the ADHD/ODD diagnosis is the default for young children that doctors use because of the impossibility of asking a young child any in-depth questions to get detailed answers. Since any scientific method of diagnosing it would be way too expensive to "waste" on a developing mind, Doctors just give this diagnosis as a catch-all and tell you that he might grow out of it and that "we'll keep and eye on it'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4timmy, post: 414857, member: 6553"] Did he sit still while the doctor was talking to you and examining him? Your stories reminded me of the time I took difficult child to Pee Wee Soccer. All of the other little kids gathered anxiously around the coach when she called them in to teach them how to hold or kick the ball. They were all so intensely focused and interested in what she was showing them. My difficult child???? He had wandered off to the corner of the field to put one of those big orange cones on his head......God love 'em. I knew then sports really wasn't gonna be in his future. Taking difficult child to the doctor or anywhere for that matter was a nightmare. My difficult child would usually have every single drawer in the examination room emptied and all the paper torn off the examination bench while we sat for another 15 to 20 minutes waiting on the doctor to come in. It always seemed like we were in that room for hours! lol I just tend to believe there are just some situations and environments that capture difficult child's interest more than others. This adds to question the whole Video Game question I hear all the time...."how can he sit for hours and play a video game" but can't sit for 5 minutes to do his homework? The answer is (supposedly) that he's engaged in a stimulating, structured game where the rules and goals and what is expected is well known to him. My difficult child is most calm when he doesn't feel pressure or fear of the unknown....... and no to your last question, my guess is no from what I've observed in my difficult child. On top of that, each child will react differently depending upon his sensitivity to things. Also, if medications are diagnosed correctly and at the right levels, you won't witness "quiet" and "unobtrusive"....maybe a little the first week, but that's it. I will add one last thing and that is I see somewhat of a trend here on this post it seems with the intial diagnosis of ADHD/ODD. My difficult child received the same diagnosis at 5 and then when he was ten, he displayed characteristics of Autism, Bi-Polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Asbergers. I'm really close to being convinced 100% that the ADHD/ODD diagnosis is the default for young children that doctors use because of the impossibility of asking a young child any in-depth questions to get detailed answers. Since any scientific method of diagnosing it would be way too expensive to "waste" on a developing mind, Doctors just give this diagnosis as a catch-all and tell you that he might grow out of it and that "we'll keep and eye on it' [/QUOTE]
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