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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So burnt out. My son just turned five, and his functional level is more like a nonverbal 3-year-old. So he needs constant supervision, and he tantrums and throws stuff when he doesn't get his way, and [b]we're still working on potty-training[/b].

Meanwhile, my 9-year-old whines, pouts and feels neglected because her brother has to be the center of things so often. School with her is its own kind of drama. (She has mild ADHD and has been on an IEP since first grade. She's doing much better and only needs support in math now -- but it's still a process.)

I try to remember everybody has their own shit to deal with and life isn't fair. But sometimes having a SN kid seems EXTRA unfair. [/quote]

Not to go off-topic, but I just wanted to share that my child had constant potty accidents until we put him on a low dose of ADHD meds.  I can't tell you how many visits to urologists and other doctors and effort we put into all of that, and not one of them said "This is not uncommon with ADHD kids and can be treated with ADHD medication."  We decided to medicate the ADHD for other reasons, but the most immediate and helpful impact was the improvement in the potty issues.  If you research it, there's a fair amount of medical research documenting the link, but for some reason the urologists don't seem to want to tell people that, or don't know about it.  Fixing that one thing did take a lot of stress of us, because we weren't constantly in the position of having to leave places because his pants were wet and he had used up all his changes of clothing.[/quote]

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