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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She should be obsessed with getting diagnosed with anxiety and OCD. That’s where she is headed.[/quote]

+1 and a pediatrician is not who I would seevfor an evaluation.[/quote]

OP what do you know about ASD and ADHD? The things you mentioned certainly don’t rule out either, and lots of pediatricians miss those issues. I know lots of people are self-diagnosing these days because of social media, but often they are right!

Pediatricians often don’t correctly diagnose these issues. In fact I don’t think they should ever evaluate for ASD because that’s a complicated assessment that needs a really thorough evaluation.

It’s true that teenagers often like the attention that diagnoses bring so I’m not saying your kid is right about it all, but please do more research about what ASD and ADHD can look like in girls. There is lots of information on YouTube (like, hour-long power point presentations from researchers at universities, not TikTokers). [/quote]

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