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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, the great news about modern day is that therapy and mental health drugs are easily accessible and no longer taboo.  If you see mental health struggles arising, you have tools to help your child that previous generations did not have access to.[/quote]

Oh yes just drug the child when in doubt [/quote]

Unfortunately many disorders have no pharmacological treatment. I know you meant it as an anti-drug comment, but actually, drugs save many people with atypical brain functioning: 
1. ADHD stimulants are by far and away, the most successful psychiatric drugs ever conceived, in terms of safety, efficacy, and side-effects. My son could not have graduated high school without them (even though for him, they did produce very problematic side effects). 
2. Some meds for anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder have also been proven to be work quite well with minimal side effects.

Autism cannot be medicated, and usually, that's what people with high IQs tend to have. You can work on the fringes, with anxiety meds if they're too anxious or are too impacted by their OCD, or ADHD stimulants if they display executive functioning problems... but the core communication problems need long-term behavioral therapy, the earlier the better. [/quote]

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