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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 455132"><p>Questioning the diagnoses can prevent inappropriate medications and issues they can present in a person with Asperger's. I have also found that inaccurate diagnoses, especially with schools, can cause huge issues. My son carried the ODD diagnosis for three years and we had school personnel that used the typical "heavy-handed no tolerance" approach they always use for kids with ODD. When the diagnosis was changed to Asperger's and the ODD diagnosis was dropped completely, the school refused to handle situations differently and ended up getting difficult child so depressed the psychiatrist pulled him out of school for the remainder of the year. Needless to say, difficult child is attending a totally different school this year. It wasn't fair to my difficult child.</p><p></p><p>There are other ADHD medications out there that are not stimulants. Strattera is only one of them and there are kids that don't respond well at all to it. It has to do with the chemical make-up of the drug. It might be worth a shot to switch to a different non-stimulant and see if the aggression improves as well as the "harassing".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 455132"] Questioning the diagnoses can prevent inappropriate medications and issues they can present in a person with Asperger's. I have also found that inaccurate diagnoses, especially with schools, can cause huge issues. My son carried the ODD diagnosis for three years and we had school personnel that used the typical "heavy-handed no tolerance" approach they always use for kids with ODD. When the diagnosis was changed to Asperger's and the ODD diagnosis was dropped completely, the school refused to handle situations differently and ended up getting difficult child so depressed the psychiatrist pulled him out of school for the remainder of the year. Needless to say, difficult child is attending a totally different school this year. It wasn't fair to my difficult child. There are other ADHD medications out there that are not stimulants. Strattera is only one of them and there are kids that don't respond well at all to it. It has to do with the chemical make-up of the drug. It might be worth a shot to switch to a different non-stimulant and see if the aggression improves as well as the "harassing". [/QUOTE]
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