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[quote=Anonymous]+1  OP, I think what posters are saying is that you really need to have your child evaluated whether that be in the system, if you school will do it, or pay for it to be done outside (I posted this on the first page).  You really don't know what you are dealing with until you have had some testing done.  Truly.  There a thousand variables here which could include ADHD, ASD, dyslexia, idiot-savant syndrome, etc.   The teacher is not allowed to diagnosis. Obviously, we posters cannot diagnosis.

I have seen up close and personal now four cases of ADHD or ASD and each case is different.  I was somewhat like your child when I was young and the pre-school teachers complained that I could read and that would tax the public school teachers, so my mom took my books away.  Only later (when my mom was at wit's end) was I tested and they learned I had a very very high I.Q.  I truly was bored in class.  And a relative graduated from Yale with honors but clearly now as an adult is realizing he has ASD.  I had my DS tested four times (for ADHD) from 3rd grade up and it was only on the last, most exhaustive and most expensive testing did I have the "ah hah" experience when the psychiatrist told me it was Asperger's (this was some time ago - now it's "on the spectrum).  I knew what it was but my husband didn't.  But even then I fought it saying "but he has normal eye contact control" and the psychiatrist told me he didn't - I was too close to her to see it.  Psych was right.  Mom (me) was wrong.

Once we knew what we were dealing with is was MUCH easier to get DS the proper help in public schools, the IEP, the lesson plans, and the books to figure out how to raise kids with ASD.   Only now - some 15 years later - am I learning that our inability to teach our son toilet training was due to ASD.  And his digestive issues (megacolon, fecalomas) was due to ASD.  I had to point BOTH out to the pediatrician because he was not trained in ASD.  So the sooner you learn "what's up" with your kid, the better advocate and parent you can be.[/quote]

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