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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 288248" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>You don't have to do it. It's totally your call. However, some things that are innocent in childhood can impede an adult from functioning well. I have many strange neurological symptoms and as a child absence seizures were one of them. In the longrun I was unable to hold a job due to (and I just saw a Neurologist again last week) inability to multitask, spatial orientation dysfunction, and a bunch of other small deficits that don't have a name, but have really impacted my life. I'm on disability. I've been fired from almost every job I've tried because of the tiny deficits that add up to big ones. I don't have that many absence seizures anymore, but there are usually other things that go along with them. It's totally up to you if you want to find out what's completely going on--I have gone and never gotten a label. But I also never got the right kind of help that would have helped me hold a job. We're talking about spatial orientation being so severe I lost a job at McDonalds. I have no real label except cognitive disorder not otherwise specified (with a very very normal IQ), but it has handicapped me.</p><p></p><p>Because of my own life I would chose to go all out to find out what is bothering my child, why she is different, so that if any sort of help is needed she gets it at a young age rather than struggling as an adult. Now maybe your daughter won't struggle at all. You know her and we don't. And $2000 is a lot of money. Good luck, whatever you decide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 288248, member: 1550"] You don't have to do it. It's totally your call. However, some things that are innocent in childhood can impede an adult from functioning well. I have many strange neurological symptoms and as a child absence seizures were one of them. In the longrun I was unable to hold a job due to (and I just saw a Neurologist again last week) inability to multitask, spatial orientation dysfunction, and a bunch of other small deficits that don't have a name, but have really impacted my life. I'm on disability. I've been fired from almost every job I've tried because of the tiny deficits that add up to big ones. I don't have that many absence seizures anymore, but there are usually other things that go along with them. It's totally up to you if you want to find out what's completely going on--I have gone and never gotten a label. But I also never got the right kind of help that would have helped me hold a job. We're talking about spatial orientation being so severe I lost a job at McDonalds. I have no real label except cognitive disorder not otherwise specified (with a very very normal IQ), but it has handicapped me. Because of my own life I would chose to go all out to find out what is bothering my child, why she is different, so that if any sort of help is needed she gets it at a young age rather than struggling as an adult. Now maybe your daughter won't struggle at all. You know her and we don't. And $2000 is a lot of money. Good luck, whatever you decide. [/QUOTE]
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