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[quote=Anonymous]My dear, you have my sympathy and hugs! I have gone through this for nearly 7 years.

DH has an MD and a PhD, for goodness's sake, and he used to brush off all our son's symptoms, as did our pediatrician. I saw the first symptoms of developmental delay at 9 months, fought to obtain services, argued with DH to pay for private testing to create a whole bullet proof case for an IEP  at his school.
Our families, who live in another country, used to laugh at my concerns - the first-time anxious mother, "don't be ridiculous", "he'll outgrow it" type of response. It used to hurt. Now I don't relate any details over the phone or by email.

Should I be happy that now his symptoms are so obvious that now they're shutting up?
Not really, I'm just waiting for someone in the family to say "if you had done such and such when he was younger, he wouldn't be this way". Strangle. I. Have. Done. Everything.

Casual stabs are everywhere. I try to hide that my son is nearly 7 and in Kindergarten, otherwise I always get some rude mother at a gathering that will pipe up obliviously "oh, isn't that redshirting, I heard everyone does that now just to give their boys an advantage - what a terrible trend, blah, blah...". I try to hide that, among other diagnoses, my son has a form of ADHD, because otherwise someone will rudely say "oh, but don't you know that ADHD is WAY overdiagnosed?".

Excuse me, I know my own son best. I have researched all these issues, I have a biomedical degree, just back off.

One day, I might just say that. But for the moment I just smile and change the subject.

Go with your gut feeling, OP. [/quote]

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