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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 101795" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>No More Rabbits,</p><p></p><p>Welcome aboard! You are so close to describing my 16 year old son it is amazing. How could two guys who live so far away from each other be so much alike?</p><p></p><p>My son has always disliked school intensely. Our lives would be so much easier if he did not have to go to school; so I understand exactly what you are speaking about. My son hates having to do "busy work" - including all homework. The sad thing is that he aces his tests and wows his teachers, but his grades fall because he won't to work he finds meaningless. That is a lot of the work in his opinion!</p><p></p><p>We have worked so hard over the years with hearing and speech evaluations, blood lead level testing, psychological evaluations, therapy... you name it - we've tried it. Finally this year, we had a neuropsychological evaluation conducted. His diagnoses are depression and Asperger's syndrome. IMPO, the depression stems from the Asperger's syndrome. The psychologist has advised us to not speak about difficult child's diagnoses with him or in front of him. He believes it will be detrimental to difficult child right now. I wonder if that is not some of what is happening with your son? I think it is very difficult to be a teenager with Asperger's syndrome. </p><p></p><p>We are doing much better at our home by easing up on a lot of our rules and expectations. The techniques found in The Explosive Child book advertised on this site have helped us tremendously. A big piece of this has been our acceptance of difficult child. The next step we have before us is to help him reach that acceptance of himself. </p><p></p><p>Good luck with your journey! I have found some wonderful ideas here on the site -and I hope that you do as well...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 101795, member: 3704"] No More Rabbits, Welcome aboard! You are so close to describing my 16 year old son it is amazing. How could two guys who live so far away from each other be so much alike? My son has always disliked school intensely. Our lives would be so much easier if he did not have to go to school; so I understand exactly what you are speaking about. My son hates having to do "busy work" - including all homework. The sad thing is that he aces his tests and wows his teachers, but his grades fall because he won't to work he finds meaningless. That is a lot of the work in his opinion! We have worked so hard over the years with hearing and speech evaluations, blood lead level testing, psychological evaluations, therapy... you name it - we've tried it. Finally this year, we had a neuropsychological evaluation conducted. His diagnoses are depression and Asperger's syndrome. IMPO, the depression stems from the Asperger's syndrome. The psychologist has advised us to not speak about difficult child's diagnoses with him or in front of him. He believes it will be detrimental to difficult child right now. I wonder if that is not some of what is happening with your son? I think it is very difficult to be a teenager with Asperger's syndrome. We are doing much better at our home by easing up on a lot of our rules and expectations. The techniques found in The Explosive Child book advertised on this site have helped us tremendously. A big piece of this has been our acceptance of difficult child. The next step we have before us is to help him reach that acceptance of himself. Good luck with your journey! I have found some wonderful ideas here on the site -and I hope that you do as well... [/QUOTE]
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