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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 421854" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Sure, Marguerite... you must feel some sense of satisfaction and also trepidation as you look at your adolescent son, about to embark on the journey of adulthood. </p><p>Where I am, and I guess others like me, are right now is in a place where we do not yet KNOW what is happening, how much of the doggedness, stubborness and "spiritedness" is due to character, how much due to difficult life circumstances, how much to some possible disorder and how much due to a combination of those factors. And it is fair and reasonable not to know - it is in the nature of things! And actually one of the reasons I REALLY want to see this excellent neuro-psychologist in my area - sadly, she is leaving her post at the end of the summer and it may be impossible to see her - is because I would really like some light shed in this darkness of not knowing. </p><p>With all due respect, and gratitude for the support that such a forum as this one gives, it is not helpful to have people telling me they think, without having seen him, that he suffers from this or that. And I really would like to make it clear that my real doubts that he has Asperger's Syndrome are not based on some dislike I have of the condition or sense that it is shameful ( is it any more, or less, "shameful", than ADHD, or Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), which I do think are quite likely for him) but simply because he just doesn't fit the list of criteria for that that I have read about...</p><p>And, yes, we want our kids to fit in and be part of society. But my son is never going to be an anonymous face in the crowd, for good or ill. All I can do is help him be as reasonable, responsible, civically minded and balanced as it is POSSIBLE for him to be...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 421854, member: 11227"] Sure, Marguerite... you must feel some sense of satisfaction and also trepidation as you look at your adolescent son, about to embark on the journey of adulthood. Where I am, and I guess others like me, are right now is in a place where we do not yet KNOW what is happening, how much of the doggedness, stubborness and "spiritedness" is due to character, how much due to difficult life circumstances, how much to some possible disorder and how much due to a combination of those factors. And it is fair and reasonable not to know - it is in the nature of things! And actually one of the reasons I REALLY want to see this excellent neuro-psychologist in my area - sadly, she is leaving her post at the end of the summer and it may be impossible to see her - is because I would really like some light shed in this darkness of not knowing. With all due respect, and gratitude for the support that such a forum as this one gives, it is not helpful to have people telling me they think, without having seen him, that he suffers from this or that. And I really would like to make it clear that my real doubts that he has Asperger's Syndrome are not based on some dislike I have of the condition or sense that it is shameful ( is it any more, or less, "shameful", than ADHD, or Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), which I do think are quite likely for him) but simply because he just doesn't fit the list of criteria for that that I have read about... And, yes, we want our kids to fit in and be part of society. But my son is never going to be an anonymous face in the crowd, for good or ill. All I can do is help him be as reasonable, responsible, civically minded and balanced as it is POSSIBLE for him to be... [/QUOTE]
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