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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary is the difficult period when many kids who will go on to be diagnosed with ADHD and autism (among other things) are not yet diagnosed, since they are between that age where people say "oh it's normal to scream and run around" and "your kid throw chairs and hits the para every week, he needs an evaluation".

1. Parents need to come to the realization that their child actually has a problem. Sometimes they never do, and blame literally everyone and everything else, for years.

2. Then if they agree their kid might have a diagnosis, they have to get on waitlists for private evaluations that cost $5K, or wait for the issues to be severe enough that the public school wants to assess the kid themselves (a much more basic and simplified assessment, so it's best to pay for the full neurosych, but most can't afford it). The whole thing can take a year.

3. Then they have to be willing to medicate (for ADHD) and sometimes it takes a long time - at least a year - to find the right dose of the right med (did you know there's been an ongoing national shortage of ADHD stimulants?). For autism, there are no meds, so a whole behavioral mitigation plan needs to be put in place. Or maybe they don't want to medicate, because they've heard of side-effects, or they go back to 1. and denial. Or the kid tries meds and nothing works.

I have a kid with inattentive ADHD (daydreaming type) and know many children with ADHD and/or autism. That's what their elementary years looked like.

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Your kid didn't just develop ADHD, it happened at birth.  Your waiting to get help was the problem.  A regular ped. can work with you till you get an evaluation.  It sounds like you are making excuses.

I knew my chid had something going on around 18 months. I didn't wait and got them help.[/quote]

PP you replied to. MY SON HAD PROBLEMS AT BIRTH AND RECEIVED HELP STARTING AT BIRTH. HE HAS MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES. HE NEVER MISBEHAVED AT SCHOOL - I MENTIONED HE HAS INATTENTIVE ADHD IN ADDITION TO THE MEDICAL STUFF, BUT APPARENTLY YOU CAN'T READ. WE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I WAS DESCRIBING THE "USUAL" COURSE OF EVENTS, SINCE I KNOW MANY KIDS WITH ADHD AND AUTISM.

Complete arsehole. Shame on you.

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