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[quote=Anonymous]OP here, she's just 4.  KKI was ok with medicating - I didn't have to ask/press, they said let's talk about treatment options.  I believe it was because of the safety issues the behavior presents (the kid literally climbs the walls/furniture, dives off them, did so during the appointment, etc, takes off in parking lots, etc), the developmental delays that accompanied it, and the "driving nuts" factor - though the latter was the lesser of the factors (but the idea being if the kid is driving everyone in their environment nuts or is otherwise so out of sync with their environment they're likely racking up repeated negative interactions, regardless of how patient/well meaning/well training the adults around them are, which is good for no one).  We checked all the boxes (I think one would have sufficed from what the doc said).  We'd had several years of interventions, had been doing behavioral stuff with minimal impact, not sure how that played in.  I was afraid they'd have some arbitrary age cut off and honestly our sole point in going there, aside from solidifying a diagnosis that had been clear since 2.5 (but obviously not formally diagnosed at that point) for school purposes, was to get to try medication with someone on insurance.  But the dev ped we saw at least did not.[/quote]

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