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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 529010" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>I hear you busywend, I actually try not to say I dont like it, for me, it is just not very useful in the end....but I can see it as a perfect descriptor of what is going on and as many have said, it sure can get you into services if you have not found what is underneath...and honestly, I met a lady the other day where they simply can't find a reason for her son...he has had like 20 psychiatric hospital and some Residential Treatment Center (RTC) stays and he is 15, the have no clue, but that diagnosis helps to get him treatment. She'd sure like to know WHY the ODD though. For me, in our case, ODD is like saying he perseverates, is clumsy, is loud, and many of the other symptoms he has. Just part of the bigger picture. But it does seem there are kids who just dont fit many of those bigger umbrella diagnosis and in that case I can imagine ODD is a lifeline diagnosis, at least someone is listening. (and I have also said, the attitude I have seen in schools is often that ODD is more of a choice in a child, or a result of poor parenting, not necessarily by the specialists in the field but by gen ed teachers and administrators, and that really stinks, it is not right and not fair)</p><p></p><p>I have said many times I should have just given my kid the middle name Oppositional. He knows the word because I started using it with him years before I was on this site, LOL. Usually in an exasperated, kidding way thinking when he was little it was too big a word for him to feel anything negative about it. Now we use it for real and I ask him why he is being oppositional right now, he will say he just feels mad etc... oh well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 529010, member: 12886"] I hear you busywend, I actually try not to say I dont like it, for me, it is just not very useful in the end....but I can see it as a perfect descriptor of what is going on and as many have said, it sure can get you into services if you have not found what is underneath...and honestly, I met a lady the other day where they simply can't find a reason for her son...he has had like 20 psychiatric hospital and some Residential Treatment Center (RTC) stays and he is 15, the have no clue, but that diagnosis helps to get him treatment. She'd sure like to know WHY the ODD though. For me, in our case, ODD is like saying he perseverates, is clumsy, is loud, and many of the other symptoms he has. Just part of the bigger picture. But it does seem there are kids who just dont fit many of those bigger umbrella diagnosis and in that case I can imagine ODD is a lifeline diagnosis, at least someone is listening. (and I have also said, the attitude I have seen in schools is often that ODD is more of a choice in a child, or a result of poor parenting, not necessarily by the specialists in the field but by gen ed teachers and administrators, and that really stinks, it is not right and not fair) I have said many times I should have just given my kid the middle name Oppositional. He knows the word because I started using it with him years before I was on this site, LOL. Usually in an exasperated, kidding way thinking when he was little it was too big a word for him to feel anything negative about it. Now we use it for real and I ask him why he is being oppositional right now, he will say he just feels mad etc... oh well. [/QUOTE]
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