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<blockquote data-quote="nuone" data-source="post: 302242" data-attributes="member: 6772"><p>Hi Newbie</p><p>Interesting thread for me - also fairly new here - and have a 16 yr adopted difficult child. It was never diagnosed during all his assessments but I strongly suspect that his birthmother was abusing alcohol and possible other substances whilst pregnant. Got him at 1 day old and went through hell with him for some time - this was what I was sure was withdrawal symptoms (only in hindsight of course). He used to scream and scream non-stop, to the extent that friends would not come around, and we were asked to "please take him home" on occasion. Later as he got a little older, he would grab handfuls of skin on my face and just pull and hold on and scream. Another thing that made me suspect is that when around anyone that was having any form of alcohol, he would grab the glass and try and drink it. A lot of kids do like the "taste" of beer, but this was more a gulping action. I did bring this up with psyche doctors later on but they did not seem to focus on it too much. He has always loved medicines and does have an addictive personality. Of course was doing the drinking and drug thing as he got older too. Has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD and Conduct Disorder. But that is another issue altogether, although I am sure that his beginnings did contribute largely, along with what we think are hereditory behaviours. Yes, I agree with earlier post that we think we are prepared for taking on these children, and then whoopsy, life takes us on a different roller-coaster ride.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nuone, post: 302242, member: 6772"] Hi Newbie Interesting thread for me - also fairly new here - and have a 16 yr adopted difficult child. It was never diagnosed during all his assessments but I strongly suspect that his birthmother was abusing alcohol and possible other substances whilst pregnant. Got him at 1 day old and went through hell with him for some time - this was what I was sure was withdrawal symptoms (only in hindsight of course). He used to scream and scream non-stop, to the extent that friends would not come around, and we were asked to "please take him home" on occasion. Later as he got a little older, he would grab handfuls of skin on my face and just pull and hold on and scream. Another thing that made me suspect is that when around anyone that was having any form of alcohol, he would grab the glass and try and drink it. A lot of kids do like the "taste" of beer, but this was more a gulping action. I did bring this up with psyche doctors later on but they did not seem to focus on it too much. He has always loved medicines and does have an addictive personality. Of course was doing the drinking and drug thing as he got older too. Has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD and Conduct Disorder. But that is another issue altogether, although I am sure that his beginnings did contribute largely, along with what we think are hereditory behaviours. Yes, I agree with earlier post that we think we are prepared for taking on these children, and then whoopsy, life takes us on a different roller-coaster ride. [/QUOTE]
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