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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have also found, as a parent of an older child via adoption, that professionals are far too quick to diagnose kids with having attachment disorder or conduct disorder when the real problem is prenatal alcohol exposure and all the issues that raises.  I have heard FASD experts opine that over 50% of kids in foster care, as well as a significant amount of the prison population, is FASD impacted.  FASD can present as impulsivity, failure to understand cause and effect, significant emotional dysregulation, ASD type communication and social impairments and overall dysmaturity.  Once we started treating it like the medical condition that it is, we gradually saw some improvement but our DC will struggle with some of these reasoning issues for life.  So not only will you often encounter FASD as part of the foster care world, but the medical and therapy establishment constantly misdiagnoses it as attachment issues instead of a medical problem.  This is not something you should visit upon your middle school age kids in the home. [/quote]

These diagnoses are highly subjective, except when there is a family history.[/quote]

Who cares? The point is the kids were nightmares. [/quote]

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