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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody has said to medicate, PP. [/quote]

Oh please.  OP said that her DS was evaluated and is not ADHD.  Many posters have diagnosed him as having ADHD[b], called him a menace[/b], and clearly expect OP to medicate him so that he will no longer touch his classmates.

Yes, tickling classmates is inappropriate, he should know better, and he shouldn't do it.  That's why OP is posting.  So far, the responses have mostly been that he must be ADHD.  [/quote]

He is a menace:  "Year after year...he  will not keep his hands to himself at school... he won't stop doing it.  Additionally, he will not stop calling out in class or correcting other classmates. It's been years of hearing from teachers he lacks self control. He is what an observer would call "a know it all". He thinks he knows better than everyone.[b] He can't get through one day without arguing with or correcting someone."[/quote]
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I'm betting there is one person posting as multiple people here. Can you please go away?[/quote]
You're wrong.  
One definition of menace is a person who causes annoyance.  What else do you think his behavior causes?  Joy?  Neutral feelings?  My children have been near kids like this and it is extremely distracting and annoying.  In kindergarten, a child sat near mine and always touched her hair.  Sounds innocent enough except my child didnt like it.  She'd want hairstyles that would try to prevent the touching and worried (a lot) that the touchy kid would "touch [her] again today..."  The teachers interventions didn't help, moving the kids apart didn't help that much (she'd touch it at lunch or on the way to get in line).  This was the one kid I ask that my child not be placed with on the school forms.  My other child had a student in his class when he was i3rd grade who constantly shouted things out.  It was very distracting and annoying....hence, a menace.  The kid is going to be ostracized in some form or another.  The single bolded line above is enough for that.  Add unwanted touching to the mix...even more so.  Tickling can be a form of control and when done on those who are really ticklish, it can be done cruel especially if not immediately stopped upon being asked to do so.

This is an 8 or 9 year old.  He [u]knows[/u] he shouldn't do these things but can't help doing so.  That's why some posters are thinking there is some impulse control issue going on.  This isn't grandma's fault.  This isn't how school anxiety would manifest itself.  What have his teachers said?  Have recent ones recommended an evaluation?  What are the teachers saying to you?[/quote]

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