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Originally Posted by Roemer
My son is diagnosed with PDD-NOS.
He's a very nice kid and he is doing great at school, he is as smart as the rest in his class,even abit above regular. But; he has a problem with other kids because he does not understand everything about socializing. He can be very stubbern and thinks that no one understands him. But when he is at home with my ex-wife there is, with 3 other kids in the house, not a real problem. When he is with me, there is no problem at all. Only at school. Because of his disorder he is behind emotially 2 years. So he cant keep up with everyone. A psychiatrist, we consulted, thinks thats the problem. I agree with that. A school where they are specialized in PDD-NOS and ADHD, he thinks ,will improve a lot of the situation. My ex wife, thinks he is better of surrounded by "normal" kids and dont want all the hassel because he has to go to a school 40 miles from home instead of two blocks away. But because of the problems with[Tristan is his name] my son, school wont keep him there unless he takes medication like ritalin or strattera. Look it up! everything you find about this is BAD NEWS. She still think this is the easiest way to solve the problem and really thinks a few pills a day will make him the ideal child he should be, even i mailed her all the information about this ****. She is not aware. She believes mainstream opinion is good and i am slightly crazy. Tried everything to get it out of her head without any results. I dont want my kid on drugs like ritalin because it is:AMFITAMINES YOU KNOW WE CALLED IT SPEED, when i was young[hmm they still do i think]. How in heavens name can that **** for a psychic healthy human being, lead you into the biggest social, health and finacial probems(you will die from it doctors say) but for my ten year old son, with a lot of social problems ,it will be the solution?
Because he is living with his mom she got the power to do this without my permission. And i think she makes THE BIGGEST MISTAKE IN THE WORLD!!!
It keeps me awake at night and i try to figger out how i could stop this, but the answers i come up with are not done because it will make things worse for Tristan. I dont know how to handle this. Thats why i wrote this here and hope to get usefull information, from people who know more than i do, about this situation.
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I know that you know that I am not a doctor, lawyer or any medical or legal profesional. I am a pseudo-biologist. Now that the disclamer is over, please seek a hormone specialist for what I am about to tell you. I also appoligize if I make more comments about my disclamier.
I have had the same problem in my youth. In elementry school I took tests that, as i regress, that I know were IQ tests. Probably he is in the 105 to 120 IQ range, am I correct? I am in that range. Did you request to see the file the county has on him? Has he been trained or made to think in future order (IE a game like chess, but not (sid miers') civilization, a game where a piece is taken, it cannot be resurected by production?
My questions get at the heart of how and what he is feeling, thinking. Hear my hypothesis: you say his energy is high (an assumption); that he has a hard time working with others. This only means that he is red, a leader, and I bet that others in his class are around the same age correct, and you say he is ten years of age? (chinese calander Tiger) Even if you do not beleive this stuff then just check it out for fun, it may explain more than you are willing to accept as fact or pseudofact. Again, I am not a phycholigist and do not the full extent of the situation. see your phycholigist (a professional.)
Please remember that ADD and ADHD may be overdignosed in America because of lazy teachers and that teachers are not dignostic professionals, just first line issuers and that the doctors do the rest. Listen to your phycholigist and if legal action is nessarry to keep your kid in school by having the phycholigist list doubts about inital front line dignosis. A lawyer would tell you (I am not a lawyer...) that a teacher is not a phycholigist and there can be persionality conflicts not in brain chemical disbalances that ADD or ADHD is truly caused by. Further university professors who are Medical doctors can take a brain scan to see if your child has ADHD or ADD (but this may be still experimental and you will need to do your research.)
topogrphical Dignostic procedure:
1. See how he plays chess against you. does he charge fast or methodicaly think it through. How fast does he think it through. does he think 1 move, 2 moves, 3 moves or more? (if 3 moves or higher his IQ could be around 120 or greater) PS. if he charges in the first game then learns how to deflect, after move after move, game after game, then hte dignosis is easy. He is just trying to live if in dignositic step 2.
2. Examine and study how he pays attention to a TV versus a book or a written work. A TV can create pseudo-ADD or pseudo-ADHD, therefore he may have the effects of what television does to a persion, become scatterbrained, not ADD or ADDHD. If he is calm at both TV and a reading then he is just fine and is not suited for medication. However; if he is excited and cannot sit still after eating (doing the same tasks), then it can be a sugar disruption (or overefficiency), hormone effeciency disorder, or digestive issue.
The best bet is that you and your son is cacuasion (spelling), and most cacuasions are germanic in genetic orgin. If so, and he may have a genetic effeciency of digesting and utilizing sugars not ony in the digestive trac, but also in all the cellular bodies in his body. he may be very effecient! This can also be just his growing spert and hormones affecting his brain. He is ten going on 14 of course. If possible place him in sports that use both his brain and bronze, cardio and muscles. Remeber, his brain cells may have this "efficency disease" too and result in faster thinking and thus higher IQ than normal, and therefore develop logic faster than his peers.
If he is irritable if he has not eaten for more than a noramal period of time, then he could have a disease opposite than diabeties, an overproduction of instulen. Consult a doctor, a blood test may be needed.
How is this "efficency disease" trait carried genetically. It is most likely carried by the maternal X chromosome and not the paternal Y chromosome. energy is created in the cell by mitochondra the "factory cells" in our eukyroyote cells. this creates ATP from sugars that testerone is nessarry for the process for (fact check needed, I am not a doctor) and ususally creates the nessary proteens and energy for us to carry out our day. In your son's case he may be going through a testrone increase from the adreanal glands (sits on top of the kidneys, yes females need testrone too, but not as much as males, just enough for the energy production in their bodies (this also goes for prepubesent boys too...)) This testrone increase can cause early puberty, but going this far in the "efficiency disease" is going way to far for this topic.
Your son may could also have viamin or mineral defficiency or over viamein efficiency. B12 is essencial for energy and for other vial functions. Caucasions can also have hemotosis (i think that what it is called), a disease that allows too much iron to exist in the body. first the digestive track asorbs too much iron, then the body does not know what to do with it and stores it as crystals in joints, extra blood cells, the liver (wich can become a huge crystal if unchecked and then you would die.) This too can be checked by a blood test (for all vitamin and mineral deficiency and efficiency diseases.) symptoms for iron over efficiency may not fully show untill later in age because of the fast rate you son may be growing. (A blood test may not fully show this at a young age so be careful.)
Or all in all, your son may just have a diffrent persionality than what is fitting in the class, and/or a reassessment to build character and more farther and son time may be needed. Talk to your phychologiest, or even better a licesenced specalized physician.
Take my advice with a grain of salt and do your own research online, consult with physisans that are consistantly listening to both research and you and your son. (caution that some physisians are more quanatative (treat more patientens) then qualatative (teat each patient with quality time and diagnosis.)
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