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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 414860" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Since I can't know what is going on with your difficult child. First, there are no neuropsychs in the US who only look for ADHD...they test for everything. </p><p></p><p>This is a TOVA test which is pretty reliable for ADHD...it is a computerized test where the child has to pay attention to blinking lights for a LONG time and press a button when he sees them. I took the test once, my autistic spectrum son did and my daughter did. Son and I were able to stay on task and did fine. ADD daughter totally messed it up. She could not follow it. She is fourteen now and has complained to me about her inability to pay attention AND to remember what she is taught. We put her on medications, but she didn't like how she felt on them, so we took her off. Still, shes struggles in school and needs extra supports. She gets C's with her help. </p><p></p><p>It seems that perhaps you worry too much about school in my opinion. I'd just let him be happy, but I was definitely try to figure out what is wrong. Something is or you wouldn't be so questioning. The earlier he gets help, the better the prognosis,</p><p></p><p>ADHD and ADD are real. So is Aperger's syndrome and kids can also be depressed and have mood disorders, whether or not doctors will diagnose them. I was a very depressed child who thought of suicide often, and back then they did not diagnose that in children. So I had a miserable childhood in which I felt I could not do anything right and I did not do well in school nor know how to make friends. I desperately wanted help, but there wasn't any. I'm thinking that perhaps France is where the US was back when I was a child, when you were supposed to cope, even if you had a disability. It was a lonely place to be. I barely graduated high school and grew more suicidal until not taking medications was life or death for me.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 414860, member: 1550"] Since I can't know what is going on with your difficult child. First, there are no neuropsychs in the US who only look for ADHD...they test for everything. This is a TOVA test which is pretty reliable for ADHD...it is a computerized test where the child has to pay attention to blinking lights for a LONG time and press a button when he sees them. I took the test once, my autistic spectrum son did and my daughter did. Son and I were able to stay on task and did fine. ADD daughter totally messed it up. She could not follow it. She is fourteen now and has complained to me about her inability to pay attention AND to remember what she is taught. We put her on medications, but she didn't like how she felt on them, so we took her off. Still, shes struggles in school and needs extra supports. She gets C's with her help. It seems that perhaps you worry too much about school in my opinion. I'd just let him be happy, but I was definitely try to figure out what is wrong. Something is or you wouldn't be so questioning. The earlier he gets help, the better the prognosis, ADHD and ADD are real. So is Aperger's syndrome and kids can also be depressed and have mood disorders, whether or not doctors will diagnose them. I was a very depressed child who thought of suicide often, and back then they did not diagnose that in children. So I had a miserable childhood in which I felt I could not do anything right and I did not do well in school nor know how to make friends. I desperately wanted help, but there wasn't any. I'm thinking that perhaps France is where the US was back when I was a child, when you were supposed to cope, even if you had a disability. It was a lonely place to be. I barely graduated high school and grew more suicidal until not taking medications was life or death for me. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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