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<blockquote data-quote="juliedw" data-source="post: 169811" data-attributes="member: 5502"><p>Sorry about the signature line. I am a spaz when it comes to computers. I will do this soon.</p><p></p><p>We have seen many private psychiatrist, most who have said high functioning autism or adhd. He has also been evaluated by TEACH in NC and they found him as non-autistic due to the fact that his expressive and receptive language was too high. They also said that you do not typically see aggressive behavior in autistic children. They said possible bi-polar or schizophrenia but he was only about 4 years old when we saw them so they said it was too early to tell.</p><p></p><p>We had him evaluated by the state when we lived in NC and they did not really give a diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>We had him evaluated by a neurologist because his 5 year old sister has Neurofibromatosis type 1 and we wanted to rule this out. This doctor said that he thought it was adhd.</p><p></p><p>He has also been evaluated through some state programs. You tend to forget who says what after a while.</p><p></p><p>He has tried several adhd medications that have basically turned him into the tasmania devil. While on these medications, he caught his room on fire and ran out in front of a moving car to be funny so we quickly took him off of these. He was able to tolerate dexedrine but it made him sick to his stomach and loose weight. It also put him almost in a trance for the first week or so then he began to tolerate it better. He stayed on this for a while but we took him off because his behavior was becoming worse again after a while. He is now on risperdal. It is not doing anything that I can tell. In the last few days I have been giving him omega 3. Hopping this might help a little. I know that medication can be a good thing but I worry about putting anything in his body that may cause problems down the road. He is scheduled to be evaluated on July 17 by another doctor. We have not been able to find a doctor who really seems to care that much.</p><p></p><p>As far as I know, he has not had neuropsychological testing. I don't really know what that is.</p><p></p><p>He does not have any significant sensory issues. Every once in a while he will complain of noises. He was attending speech therapy through the public school during his kindergarten and first grade years but there were not really any delays, just kind of a labored speech pattern.</p><p></p><p>The strange things he does are for example: In kindergarten, he went to the bathroom and came out naked and ran around the classroom. He will lick people on the face sometimes. He just does things that most kids his age think are gross like eat your boogers and he does it to be funny or something.</p><p></p><p>My father is an alcoholic and both of my mother's parents were alcoholics. As far as I know there is not any history of mental illness on either side of the family.</p><p></p><p>As far as the school goes, he was in public school when he was expelled. We told them up front that there were issues and we worked very closely with them to help him in the classroom. Last year we asked them about an IEP but they said he had to go through a tier program first. I did not understand but assumed they were trying to help us. Now I feel like they were just trying to get rid of him because he was difficult. We are now working with an advocacy group and we have requested an evaluation from the school. We are waiting to hear back on all of this.</p><p></p><p>Thank you so much for your recommendation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="juliedw, post: 169811, member: 5502"] Sorry about the signature line. I am a spaz when it comes to computers. I will do this soon. We have seen many private psychiatrist, most who have said high functioning autism or adhd. He has also been evaluated by TEACH in NC and they found him as non-autistic due to the fact that his expressive and receptive language was too high. They also said that you do not typically see aggressive behavior in autistic children. They said possible bi-polar or schizophrenia but he was only about 4 years old when we saw them so they said it was too early to tell. We had him evaluated by the state when we lived in NC and they did not really give a diagnosis. We had him evaluated by a neurologist because his 5 year old sister has Neurofibromatosis type 1 and we wanted to rule this out. This doctor said that he thought it was adhd. He has also been evaluated through some state programs. You tend to forget who says what after a while. He has tried several adhd medications that have basically turned him into the tasmania devil. While on these medications, he caught his room on fire and ran out in front of a moving car to be funny so we quickly took him off of these. He was able to tolerate dexedrine but it made him sick to his stomach and loose weight. It also put him almost in a trance for the first week or so then he began to tolerate it better. He stayed on this for a while but we took him off because his behavior was becoming worse again after a while. He is now on risperdal. It is not doing anything that I can tell. In the last few days I have been giving him omega 3. Hopping this might help a little. I know that medication can be a good thing but I worry about putting anything in his body that may cause problems down the road. He is scheduled to be evaluated on July 17 by another doctor. We have not been able to find a doctor who really seems to care that much. As far as I know, he has not had neuropsychological testing. I don't really know what that is. He does not have any significant sensory issues. Every once in a while he will complain of noises. He was attending speech therapy through the public school during his kindergarten and first grade years but there were not really any delays, just kind of a labored speech pattern. The strange things he does are for example: In kindergarten, he went to the bathroom and came out naked and ran around the classroom. He will lick people on the face sometimes. He just does things that most kids his age think are gross like eat your boogers and he does it to be funny or something. My father is an alcoholic and both of my mother's parents were alcoholics. As far as I know there is not any history of mental illness on either side of the family. As far as the school goes, he was in public school when he was expelled. We told them up front that there were issues and we worked very closely with them to help him in the classroom. Last year we asked them about an IEP but they said he had to go through a tier program first. I did not understand but assumed they were trying to help us. Now I feel like they were just trying to get rid of him because he was difficult. We are now working with an advocacy group and we have requested an evaluation from the school. We are waiting to hear back on all of this. Thank you so much for your recommendation. [/QUOTE]
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