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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly it depends what tradeoffs you're willing to make to avoid medication, and what you consider to be "success". Willing to homeschool, or willing to pay for private, willing to have limited choice of camps? Many people are fine with that, but for some it's a difficult tradeoff. Impact on siblings, friendships (at eight, behavior like this will start to really affect friendships), stress on the family as a whole. Only you can decide, OP, what's worth it to avoid medication. It's a very individual question.

I've seen a lot of families delay medication until their kid was really struggling socially and pretty miserable trying to get by in mainstream settings. The only time I've seen it go differently was a kid who had an atypical presentation of ASD, was face-blind so everyone had to adjust for that, and he received a ton of social skills coaching that addressed his skill gap. With a few years maturity he was in a better place. And one other kid who was having mini seizures that frightened him, but then they medicated for that. For most, in my experience, other interventions can help, at great effort to the family, but medication has the most oomph.[/quote]

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