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Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) not otherwise specified or bipolar not otherwise specified or both?
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 483529" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>You are the one who lives this so I am not doubting you for a second. Please know that! I am just going to share what you have probably heard a million times here.... The behaviors you describe, the mood swings, the teary stuff, the "pressured speech" all are similar to the dozens of kids I have taught with autism over the years. I have worked with kids with bi-polar as a stand alone diagnosis, but not nearly the number of kids I have worked with on the spectrum so my knowledge is lopsided. The manicky and depressed symptoms do happen in autism, but caused by a different reason. The quality of them may be different? as I said, I do not have enough experience to compare so I would think once you start working with autism professionals you may get more information as to whether or not his behaviors look like autism symptoms to them. You have not spent time in programs with people who have worked on his autism yet right? So, if the medications are helping, great. I certainly use them. Many people do. And then now that you have the autism diagnosis (PDDnos) then you can get services for that and little by little you will sort out what looks more like autism vs. what looks more bi-polar. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, so many kids with autism were misdiagnosed as another disorder and it certainly could be that this is the situation with you. People do not like to drop a diagnosis once they are committed to it and they will be looking for bipolar symptoms because that is what he came in with. It is just human nature. It will be interesting to see what they say and do. </p><p></p><p>Not much help, sorry.....</p><p></p><p>Can you have an IEP meeting and discuss getting into autism programming ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 483529, member: 12886"] You are the one who lives this so I am not doubting you for a second. Please know that! I am just going to share what you have probably heard a million times here.... The behaviors you describe, the mood swings, the teary stuff, the "pressured speech" all are similar to the dozens of kids I have taught with autism over the years. I have worked with kids with bi-polar as a stand alone diagnosis, but not nearly the number of kids I have worked with on the spectrum so my knowledge is lopsided. The manicky and depressed symptoms do happen in autism, but caused by a different reason. The quality of them may be different? as I said, I do not have enough experience to compare so I would think once you start working with autism professionals you may get more information as to whether or not his behaviors look like autism symptoms to them. You have not spent time in programs with people who have worked on his autism yet right? So, if the medications are helping, great. I certainly use them. Many people do. And then now that you have the autism diagnosis (PDDnos) then you can get services for that and little by little you will sort out what looks more like autism vs. what looks more bi-polar. Unfortunately, so many kids with autism were misdiagnosed as another disorder and it certainly could be that this is the situation with you. People do not like to drop a diagnosis once they are committed to it and they will be looking for bipolar symptoms because that is what he came in with. It is just human nature. It will be interesting to see what they say and do. Not much help, sorry..... Can you have an IEP meeting and discuss getting into autism programming ? [/QUOTE]
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