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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 113433" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'll add to smallworld. If he has no friends, no social skills, and never leaves the house, he could also be on the autism spectrum. Under those conditions, medicating him to make him better won't work. Maybe you can get a new evaluation from a neuropsychologist. The disability label can get him services at eighteen. It just isn't the norm for even bipolar kids to have no friends or stay in the house day and night. Most of them have outbursts of thrillseeking with buddies (often not in a good way), but bipolar doesn't make you a loner. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often does as the kids have no understanding how to act in the world, with others, etc. A NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) is close to Aspergers Syndrome, but that diagnosis. won't get services. And people with NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) may have trouble making friends, but they do try. Rather than trying to figure it out yourself, you may want to give a neuropsychologist evaluation one more try. That's the best way to get him help as an adult. He could be lashing out because of anger and frustration at his limitations. Or he could have co-morbid problems, but I'd want to have to looked at one more time, while he's still seventeen. There must be someplace he belongs, but the label IS important. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 113433, member: 1550"] I'll add to smallworld. If he has no friends, no social skills, and never leaves the house, he could also be on the autism spectrum. Under those conditions, medicating him to make him better won't work. Maybe you can get a new evaluation from a neuropsychologist. The disability label can get him services at eighteen. It just isn't the norm for even bipolar kids to have no friends or stay in the house day and night. Most of them have outbursts of thrillseeking with buddies (often not in a good way), but bipolar doesn't make you a loner. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often does as the kids have no understanding how to act in the world, with others, etc. A NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) is close to Aspergers Syndrome, but that diagnosis. won't get services. And people with NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) may have trouble making friends, but they do try. Rather than trying to figure it out yourself, you may want to give a neuropsychologist evaluation one more try. That's the best way to get him help as an adult. He could be lashing out because of anger and frustration at his limitations. Or he could have co-morbid problems, but I'd want to have to looked at one more time, while he's still seventeen. There must be someplace he belongs, but the label IS important. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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