Shining, I appreciate you sharing your story about your son.
I'm definitely looking into testing. She had a HUGE tantrum/meltdown at H's tonight and he called to discuss it. I can tell he is mildly traumatized by it.
Part if me is super glad he had to face that because I've done it solo for YEARS and told him something isn't right and he just wrote me off every single time.
Now he's saying something isn't right.
Oh how things change.
D was tested for Asperger's when she was 5. The doc basically diagnosed her before even meeting her, send us home with questionnaires scored them and voila! Asperger's. Later on we were seeing another behavioral therapist and said it seemed more like severe ADHD and ODD. Now someone else is telling us it's giftedness.
I'm so sick of people guessing because I freaking need answers! She's bored out of her mind in school but the principal won't accelerate her. She reads at an 8th grade level and has a 10th grade vocabulary. She taught herself to read at 2 years, 9 months, taught herself division and multiplication, French and has a borderline eidetic memory for music but she's horribly impulsive and genuinely cannot control herself. She is in trouble constantly and has been since she was 2. Teachers HATE her.
I can't imagine my daughter is the hardest kid on the planet but why are answers so hard to come by? We spent $10,000 and over a year at the behavioral therapists office with NOTHING changing even a little bit!!
She is on TWO (non-stimulant) medications after trying 10 stimulants with horrifying results. She is such a trooper because she wants to stop being the kid who gets in trouble all the time.
I just hate this so much. Add to her troubles her parents separation and... Well...
