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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 463241" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks! </p><p>Without wanting to sound arrogant (obviously not my intention - arrogance doesn't come into it), I now suspect I know more than the child psychiatrist about ADHD and conditions with similar symptoms. The last time I saw her, we again talked about the fact that ADHD may not be the right diagnosis. I asked her if there was anything else it could be. She talked about reactive attachment disorder. That was it. When in fact there are various other possibilities.</p><p>Pepperidge mentioned Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and at first I dismissed this. But then, reading more about it, I see that there is a "lesser" form of it, that doesn't involve facial deformity or mental retardation and... well, I don't want to start getting obsessive about labels again, but from what I have read, I feel it could explain J's symptoms better than ADHD, particularly as he does not have particular trouble focusing or sustaining focus.</p><p>But if I take this to the child psychiatric., I think she is going just to dismiss the idea! Will she even have heard of it? And how, in any case, does one ever distinguish between ADHD and damage caused by alchohol in utero? Is it important to have this difference understood.</p><p>I feel sad for J... if this is it. His whole life damaged because of his biological mother drinking - it's like a really powerful statement that you weren't loved or cared for, isn't it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 463241, member: 11227"] Thanks! Without wanting to sound arrogant (obviously not my intention - arrogance doesn't come into it), I now suspect I know more than the child psychiatrist about ADHD and conditions with similar symptoms. The last time I saw her, we again talked about the fact that ADHD may not be the right diagnosis. I asked her if there was anything else it could be. She talked about reactive attachment disorder. That was it. When in fact there are various other possibilities. Pepperidge mentioned Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and at first I dismissed this. But then, reading more about it, I see that there is a "lesser" form of it, that doesn't involve facial deformity or mental retardation and... well, I don't want to start getting obsessive about labels again, but from what I have read, I feel it could explain J's symptoms better than ADHD, particularly as he does not have particular trouble focusing or sustaining focus. But if I take this to the child psychiatric., I think she is going just to dismiss the idea! Will she even have heard of it? And how, in any case, does one ever distinguish between ADHD and damage caused by alchohol in utero? Is it important to have this difference understood. I feel sad for J... if this is it. His whole life damaged because of his biological mother drinking - it's like a really powerful statement that you weren't loved or cared for, isn't it? [/QUOTE]
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