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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I'm so sad to read this whole thread.  Usually this forum is so helpful, but this is almost all people bashing other posters.

I just came on to say that I often appreciate people providing arm-chair diagnoses and lawyering advice.  One of the most useful parts of this forum is to get some ideas to think about before going to talk to the professionals.  I'm often like a deer in headlights when I do talk to the professionals and thinking through possibilities before I do that is really helpful.  Also, I think a lot of us have the problem that if we see a carpenter, they diagnose a nail (or something like that) and it's often helpful for someone to say "Well, maybe instead of a carpenter, you should have seen a plumber...."  One of my BIGGEST frustrations is that there's not really one-stop shopping for figuring out how to help my kids.  For instance, we spent YEARS seeing urologists and OTs and not one of them told me that daytime urinary incontinence is a not uncommon symptom of ADHD.  So whenever I see a post about incontinence, I will suggest to the poster that they consider ADHD, because it might save them years of heartache asking why the constipation protocols and OT and whatever else they are prescribed isn't working.

Anyway, let me echo what another poster said -- assume that people responding are trying to help!  Ignore what's not helpful, and report what is truly offensive to Jeff for deletion.  [/quote]

OP here.  Helpful contributions sound like this:  "When my kid had language problems that did not resolve, I did a full neuropsych and it was really helpful in pinpointing interventions that worked."

Unhelpful PP:  "You are a crazy dipsh*t hurting your children and refusing to evaluate them and are in denial about their disorder."

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