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<blockquote data-quote="Lilac mom" data-source="post: 693340" data-attributes="member: 20503"><p><em>Hello parents,</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Thanks in advance for listening and any advice you have to give. I've been reading for a while till I feel like I almost know some of you. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I have a 17 year old son with a diagnoses of "anxiety" who uses pot as his (illegal) "medicine". He has been difficult since he was a baby. Some of his issues over the past years have been:</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>hates having his haircut (hairs falling and scratching his neck)</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>very picky eater</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>sensitivity to fabric</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>easily melts down</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>MAJOR biter as a toddler</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>school anxiety</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>habitual truant junior year--left school to "smoke"</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>little ability to keep a job (does not like to be told what to do--for example if his boss tells him to get off his phone he can't deal) Also at current job freaked out because people he knew came in and SAW him--omg--horror!</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>in past, obsession with avoiding germs (would wash his hands raw in 7th grade-had a fit once until I made a special trip to the store for hand sanitizer), wouldn't shake people's hands, etc..</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>very particular about clothing, can't have lint on it or smell too strongly of detergant</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>difficulty with certain sounds like car windshield wiper/windows rolled down</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>"addiction" to computer games--smallworlds, minecraft, etc...to the exclusion of EVERYTHING ELSE, not currently as computer is broken. Other "addictions" throughout the year have included Pokemon, becoming a bodybuilder (we had to then go out and buy EVERYTHING for his new obsession), etc...etc...etc....Currently obsessed with marijuana and "accessories" for smoking it.</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>little ability to focus on schoolwork</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Very smart in certain areas like computers and math, but extreme difficulty with spelling, foreign language and analyzing of books and literature.</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Things have to be a certain way--HIS WAY--or he freaks out and has a "tantrum"</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>if he's into something, he puts in 100%, but then moves onto the next thing very suddenly.</em></li> </ul><p><em>there's more--lots more--these are just some of the things that came to mind. He is seeing a psychiatrist soon for the first time. The anxiety diagnoses was given to him by a counselor. I guess I just wonder if it's more than just "garden variety" anxiety. He's SO extreme, so EVERYTHING. It's just so exhausting. It's hard to summarize 17 years in the space I have here, I just wondered if someone might have any ideas. To me he acts kind of like an aspie (socially different, but yet did have a lovely girlfriend of one year and currently has some pot smoking friends, sort of flat affect, sensory stuff) but then, he's also super impulsive and a risk taker/rule breaker which isn't aspie, right? And then, his moods--ugh, not good. He's been drug tested twice, only pot came up.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Thanks for reading if you got through this, if you have any input I am all ears. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile-new.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smile-new:" title="smile-new :smile-new:" data-shortname=":smile-new:" /></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lilac mom, post: 693340, member: 20503"] [I]Hello parents, Thanks in advance for listening and any advice you have to give. I've been reading for a while till I feel like I almost know some of you. I have a 17 year old son with a diagnoses of "anxiety" who uses pot as his (illegal) "medicine". He has been difficult since he was a baby. Some of his issues over the past years have been:[/I] [LIST] [*][I]hates having his haircut (hairs falling and scratching his neck)[/I] [*][I]very picky eater[/I] [*][I]sensitivity to fabric[/I] [*][I]easily melts down[/I] [*][I]MAJOR biter as a toddler[/I] [*][I]school anxiety[/I] [*][I]habitual truant junior year--left school to "smoke"[/I] [*][I]little ability to keep a job (does not like to be told what to do--for example if his boss tells him to get off his phone he can't deal) Also at current job freaked out because people he knew came in and SAW him--omg--horror![/I] [*][I]in past, obsession with avoiding germs (would wash his hands raw in 7th grade-had a fit once until I made a special trip to the store for hand sanitizer), wouldn't shake people's hands, etc..[/I] [*][I]very particular about clothing, can't have lint on it or smell too strongly of detergant[/I] [*][I]difficulty with certain sounds like car windshield wiper/windows rolled down[/I] [*][I]"addiction" to computer games--smallworlds, minecraft, etc...to the exclusion of EVERYTHING ELSE, not currently as computer is broken. Other "addictions" throughout the year have included Pokemon, becoming a bodybuilder (we had to then go out and buy EVERYTHING for his new obsession), etc...etc...etc....Currently obsessed with marijuana and "accessories" for smoking it.[/I] [*][I]little ability to focus on schoolwork[/I] [*][I]Very smart in certain areas like computers and math, but extreme difficulty with spelling, foreign language and analyzing of books and literature.[/I] [*][I]Things have to be a certain way--HIS WAY--or he freaks out and has a "tantrum"[/I] [*][I]if he's into something, he puts in 100%, but then moves onto the next thing very suddenly.[/I] [/LIST] [I]there's more--lots more--these are just some of the things that came to mind. He is seeing a psychiatrist soon for the first time. The anxiety diagnoses was given to him by a counselor. I guess I just wonder if it's more than just "garden variety" anxiety. He's SO extreme, so EVERYTHING. It's just so exhausting. It's hard to summarize 17 years in the space I have here, I just wondered if someone might have any ideas. To me he acts kind of like an aspie (socially different, but yet did have a lovely girlfriend of one year and currently has some pot smoking friends, sort of flat affect, sensory stuff) but then, he's also super impulsive and a risk taker/rule breaker which isn't aspie, right? And then, his moods--ugh, not good. He's been drug tested twice, only pot came up. Thanks for reading if you got through this, if you have any input I am all ears. :smile-new:[/I] [/QUOTE]
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