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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 405562" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've seen this. The Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids have a very highly developed (overdeveloped?) sense of justice/injustice and a very minor chiding could reduce them to tears, or totally wither them for ages. easy child 2/difficult child 2 still rankles over incidents from early in her life where a teacher scolded her, often only mildly, for something that was, later on, found to be inappropriately applied. She still harks back on it and complains about it being unfair.</p><p></p><p>I also have seen the significant increase in emotional response over and above, with certain medication. Ritalin and Concerta rebound looks like this; Strattera looked like this too when difficult child 3 took it, but there was a lot more anger in his reaction, than mere teariness.</p><p></p><p>With spectrum kids, you're also dealing with their poor social skills and therefore increased difficulty in accepting criticism appropriately. Where most kids can mentally put it all in perspective and generally shrug it off, the spectrum kids really dwell on it and get upset with themselves if they feel they fouled up (because so much of their effort is going into "pretending to be normal" and trying to fit in, so it is devastating to them to realise they are still falling far short of the mark even though they are trying to hard.</p><p></p><p>It may be something else - but what you describe could fit easily with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Or it could be a medication rebound issue. Or both.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 405562, member: 1991"] I've seen this. The Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids have a very highly developed (overdeveloped?) sense of justice/injustice and a very minor chiding could reduce them to tears, or totally wither them for ages. easy child 2/difficult child 2 still rankles over incidents from early in her life where a teacher scolded her, often only mildly, for something that was, later on, found to be inappropriately applied. She still harks back on it and complains about it being unfair. I also have seen the significant increase in emotional response over and above, with certain medication. Ritalin and Concerta rebound looks like this; Strattera looked like this too when difficult child 3 took it, but there was a lot more anger in his reaction, than mere teariness. With spectrum kids, you're also dealing with their poor social skills and therefore increased difficulty in accepting criticism appropriately. Where most kids can mentally put it all in perspective and generally shrug it off, the spectrum kids really dwell on it and get upset with themselves if they feel they fouled up (because so much of their effort is going into "pretending to be normal" and trying to fit in, so it is devastating to them to realise they are still falling far short of the mark even though they are trying to hard. It may be something else - but what you describe could fit easily with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Or it could be a medication rebound issue. Or both. Marg [/QUOTE]
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