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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 385908" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>My son is on the autism spectrum and to this day he can't write. He is seventeen and he has to print. It's not exclusive to ADHD. Fortunately, he is good on the keyboard. My son used a special pencil with an adapter when he was younger. He also constantly fidgets, even today. When he was in choir, hub and I used to laugh because he would pick at his nice, white button shirt the entire time as he sang. Sometimes he'd stand on the sides of his feet, look at the lights, look down at the floor...all this while the other teenage kids were just staring at the choral director. My son wants to touch everything...I think it's a sensory thing.</p><p></p><p>I agree that it's a good idea to look into (and lealrn about) Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). It is often right there with ADHD. I know that the diagnostic process is different in Canada than in the US, but I'd just like to share, for what it's worth, that no pediatrician ever caught onto the fact that my son was on the spectrum. We had to take him to more specialized professionals. Pediatricians tend to not know much beyond ADHD/Odd and that's what my son's first diagnosis was, but it was not correct.</p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 385908, member: 1550"] My son is on the autism spectrum and to this day he can't write. He is seventeen and he has to print. It's not exclusive to ADHD. Fortunately, he is good on the keyboard. My son used a special pencil with an adapter when he was younger. He also constantly fidgets, even today. When he was in choir, hub and I used to laugh because he would pick at his nice, white button shirt the entire time as he sang. Sometimes he'd stand on the sides of his feet, look at the lights, look down at the floor...all this while the other teenage kids were just staring at the choral director. My son wants to touch everything...I think it's a sensory thing. I agree that it's a good idea to look into (and lealrn about) Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). It is often right there with ADHD. I know that the diagnostic process is different in Canada than in the US, but I'd just like to share, for what it's worth, that no pediatrician ever caught onto the fact that my son was on the spectrum. We had to take him to more specialized professionals. Pediatricians tend to not know much beyond ADHD/Odd and that's what my son's first diagnosis was, but it was not correct. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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