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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeez that is tough OP.  The challenges you describe with the meltdowns seems totally at odds with the dev ped blowing you off.  Some parents have a low threshold for meltdowns and bad behavior, and immediately worry their kids have "something" going on.  But given the list of all the assessments you've done, I feel like any good expert is going to see there is something more going on here than just typical 3 year old behavior.

Ultimately, I'd "guess" (obv not an expert - but just from our own experience and reading this forum for 8+ years) you eventually end up with one or more diagnoses of ADHD, ASD or anxiety - but some of those may not be easily diagnosable for many years.  For instance, lots of kids from this forum don't get the ASD diagnosis when evaluated at age 5, but ultimately at age 8 or 10 get a "HFA" diagnosis. We can debate whether those kids really have "ASD", but it's at least recognizing they probably have always had something going on that makes them neurodiverse.

With that whole list of assessments, obviously your parent-gut is screaming out to you that there's still something going on here that's not being addressed.  I'm not a "diagnosis shopper", but I would keep going to a dev ped, psychiatrist or neuropsych until I found someone to listen to me, that these aren't just normal 3 year old tantrums, but a kid that needs support.   [/quote]

I disagree a little bit with this- the fact that she has had multiple evals (developmental ped, neuropsych) that all basically said her kid was normal, to me, probably means that her kid is not neurodivergent and is just a difficult 3 year old having 3 year old tantrums that are in fact within the realm of normal, even if more intense than most other 3 year olds.   Not that they were both brushing her off and that she needs to keep shopping around for more specialists.  Just my two cents of course.[/quote]

I hear you. But she has not had a neuropsych and it sounds like the developmenal pediatrician has been the same throughout, though it does sound like at 2 a neuropsychologist said no to autism. But a day long tantrum because the tv had to be turned off at an agreed upon time (op I'm assuming you gave appropriate warnings that this was last episode etc?) is just within no realm of typical. My son's behaviors are WAY less severe and we are taken pretty seriously about concerns for adhd.

Op what do teachers say? I know you said the tantrums don't happen at school which isn't that abnormal for some kids, but if the teachers also see no autism/adhd signs that is interesting. [/quote]

Agree- I hadn't seen the update. Didn't realize the post was old.  [/quote]

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