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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 453146" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Refusing to allow you to volunteer - from my experience, that is a big red flag. At our local school we had two teachers, husband and wife, who would refuse to make any accommodations (while promising to do so). The wife was the powerful one in the relationship and the school. We did have a visiting expert go in to the man's classroom to observe then report; the interview afterwards where she talked to the teacher and me, we had to have in the staffroom and the man's wife was at the other end of the room, ears flapping, I think to make sure her husband was not going to get shafted. Of course there was no possibility of the session being critical; the aim was to make constructive suggestions and to give the teacher resources he may not have had access to previously. And when two years later his wife was difficult child 3's teacher - she did not take this well at all and became very obstructive. At an IEP meeting when I had the speech pathologist also present, the SP said she would come in to observe and support, and the teacher said, "No, you won't."</p><p>I insisted and got my way, but it was the last time that teacher ever allowed any therapist to observe. It could have been fought higher up in the system, but no parent ever dared insist, after me. Soon afterwards, therapists in general were banned by the other staff, because this teacher leaned on them all heavily. The principal was a nice guy but a wimp.</p><p></p><p>Back to your daughter - much of what you describe sounds like AS to me. The violence, the outbursts, the rages - definitely AS. We get that still, but not as badly now he's older. In difficult child 3 it's driven by frustration and anxiety, either singly or together. And we had to learn to see the world as he does, in order to recognise the source of the problem so we could learn to head it off at the pass.</p><p></p><p>There may be something else, but for now I would focus on the AS and try to see it in that light only. Keep an open mind, however. Mommy instincts can never be discounted.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 453146, member: 1991"] Refusing to allow you to volunteer - from my experience, that is a big red flag. At our local school we had two teachers, husband and wife, who would refuse to make any accommodations (while promising to do so). The wife was the powerful one in the relationship and the school. We did have a visiting expert go in to the man's classroom to observe then report; the interview afterwards where she talked to the teacher and me, we had to have in the staffroom and the man's wife was at the other end of the room, ears flapping, I think to make sure her husband was not going to get shafted. Of course there was no possibility of the session being critical; the aim was to make constructive suggestions and to give the teacher resources he may not have had access to previously. And when two years later his wife was difficult child 3's teacher - she did not take this well at all and became very obstructive. At an IEP meeting when I had the speech pathologist also present, the SP said she would come in to observe and support, and the teacher said, "No, you won't." I insisted and got my way, but it was the last time that teacher ever allowed any therapist to observe. It could have been fought higher up in the system, but no parent ever dared insist, after me. Soon afterwards, therapists in general were banned by the other staff, because this teacher leaned on them all heavily. The principal was a nice guy but a wimp. Back to your daughter - much of what you describe sounds like AS to me. The violence, the outbursts, the rages - definitely AS. We get that still, but not as badly now he's older. In difficult child 3 it's driven by frustration and anxiety, either singly or together. And we had to learn to see the world as he does, in order to recognise the source of the problem so we could learn to head it off at the pass. There may be something else, but for now I would focus on the AS and try to see it in that light only. Keep an open mind, however. Mommy instincts can never be discounted. Marg [/QUOTE]
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