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Once again...Feeling like a bad parent
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<blockquote data-quote="STRESSEDTOMAX" data-source="post: 594653" data-attributes="member: 3512"><p>DF - I feel many of the same things that you do. Going to the psychiatrist wasn't an option. He just refused to go just like he refuses to do anything he doesn't want to do. Since he was about four, up until now, there are many times where he will do dangerous things in the car if he was mad. When he was younger, it would be throwing things at me from the back seat. Now that he's older, he's next to me in the front seat and touches all the things on the dashboard - hazard lights, windshield wipers, etc. and threatens to throw himself out of the car. Even when I succeed at getting him to an appointment, there have been several times that he would refuse to come in, lock himself in the car, and blow the horn. Other times, he would refuse to get back in the car to leave. I don't want anyone to think that I am being harsh with my difficult child because I am not. But I refuse to believe that he cannot control these things. He doesn't do this to his father. So, I guess he will be doing the appointments from now on. </p><p></p><p>It seems that everything I've done for him in the past 10 years has been motivated by a combination of love and fear of meltdowns. He is now about 5" 1" and 155 lbs and I need to somehow get control of this situation. This visit to psychiatrist was discussed beforehand and I refuse to let him have all the things he wants when he can't do simple things for me. I ask him to take the dog out...he doesn't want to. IC - his diagnosis are there in my sig. He has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), either Aspergers or Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), severe ODD ( whether it's a diagnosis or not, I don't care -he meets all criteria), anxiety,Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).</p><p></p><p>As for school - that's been problematic from pre-K on. I honestly don't believe he should be mainstreamed and we've had an extremely hard time with the SD. I am planning to homeschool him next year and see how it goes. HOWEVER, it will be impossible if I ask him to do some work and he refuses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STRESSEDTOMAX, post: 594653, member: 3512"] DF - I feel many of the same things that you do. Going to the psychiatrist wasn't an option. He just refused to go just like he refuses to do anything he doesn't want to do. Since he was about four, up until now, there are many times where he will do dangerous things in the car if he was mad. When he was younger, it would be throwing things at me from the back seat. Now that he's older, he's next to me in the front seat and touches all the things on the dashboard - hazard lights, windshield wipers, etc. and threatens to throw himself out of the car. Even when I succeed at getting him to an appointment, there have been several times that he would refuse to come in, lock himself in the car, and blow the horn. Other times, he would refuse to get back in the car to leave. I don't want anyone to think that I am being harsh with my difficult child because I am not. But I refuse to believe that he cannot control these things. He doesn't do this to his father. So, I guess he will be doing the appointments from now on. It seems that everything I've done for him in the past 10 years has been motivated by a combination of love and fear of meltdowns. He is now about 5" 1" and 155 lbs and I need to somehow get control of this situation. This visit to psychiatrist was discussed beforehand and I refuse to let him have all the things he wants when he can't do simple things for me. I ask him to take the dog out...he doesn't want to. IC - his diagnosis are there in my sig. He has Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), either Aspergers or Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), severe ODD ( whether it's a diagnosis or not, I don't care -he meets all criteria), anxiety,Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). As for school - that's been problematic from pre-K on. I honestly don't believe he should be mainstreamed and we've had an extremely hard time with the SD. I am planning to homeschool him next year and see how it goes. HOWEVER, it will be impossible if I ask him to do some work and he refuses. [/QUOTE]
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