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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP ---is your child biological or through adoption?  My experience as an adoptive parent is that therapists are far too quick to diagnose RAD when the real source of the challenging behaviors is FASD or other issues.  But to answer your question---any child with problemmatic behaviors makes it challenging to be with neurotypical family and friends.  [/quote]

I'm a child therapist and it would take a lot, I mean a LOT for me to diagnose RAD. It's almost unheard of in America in 2025. I would seriously question any therapist who used this diagnosis. Caveat obviously that I don't know OP's situation, but RAD is exceedingly rare. [/quote]

Do you never work with adopted kids?  Particularly with kids from Eastern European countries?  It is rare in most populations but less so in others. [/quote]

I think you have some really outdated information. There like 1500 international adoptions each year in America, total. Almost none come from Eastern Europe anymore. Not every child from Eastern Europe had RAD, not even close. So even IF a therapist specialized in seeing adopted children, the chances of them seeing an adoptee with RAD are slim to known.

The stereotype of an Eastern European orphan with RAD is just that, a stereotype based on a few sensationalized cases decades ago. [/quote]

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