Asperger Syndrome Support Group
Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.
Hello, My son is almost 7. He was diagnosed with ADHD in September 2012. We did behavior therapy, diet change and everything we could to avoid medicine. It came to a point where he was going to flunk out of kindergarten if we didn't do something. So we saw a child psychologist and he put my son on vyvanse. Let me make something clear. We did NOT want to put our son on medicine. But we had to. It was amazing the difference it made. His grades went up and he made it to the passing reading level and in the behavior section of his report card it went from all NF= Needs improvement in this area for the first three grading periods to all S= satisfactory for the last grading period. Then in the summer time we took him off it and started back up right before school started, well it wasn't effective like before so the doctor switched it to metadata. Well he was having more behavior problems so we went to a different doctor and he said my son shows some bipolar behaviors and some autistic behaviors. My son is a happy child and never depressed and isn't really manic either so I think the bipolar thing is off but I have always wondered if he is autistic. He was delayed in everything as a baby, from crawling, walking, talking, didn't like to be cuddled, did a thing with his hands up by his head when he got excited. My 2 year old daughter talks better than my son did when he was 3 1/2. It was hard for me because my oldest son was early to do everything and talking in complete sentences at 2. And my daughter was early to average for doing everything and talks in sentences at 2. At the age of 2 my son with suspected autisim only said a few words. He doesn't like to be touched, he cant stand tags, or the way certain clothes fit, he doesn't like to make eye contact very often, he tried out for football this year but couldn't stand the way the shoulder pads felt against his neck so he quit. My question is could it be aspergers or a different form of autism. I know with all the reading ive done a child with aspergers usually is super smart on one subject, like animals, bugs, music etc, so far my son doesn't seem to be that way about a particular subject. He loves sharks and likes to watch stuff about them on Netflix or the discover chanel and will go on and on about what he saw and learned but I don't think hes fixated on them. I came across a quiz online for aspergers and it said that if 6 out of 10 of your answers coincide with their answers aspergers is highly likely. 8 out of 10 of his answers coincided with their answers.
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That's a bit academic now because Asperger's / Autism is now in a single Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I won't bore you with the reasons but it does have some logical rigour to making it a multi dimensional spectrum.
You've mentioned alot of things that would suggest ASD.
Please get him tested by someone competent - my understanding is that is done by the US education system and will result in him getting better support.
Re the bipolar thing - personally I believe you can't have bipolar at 7 - in the same way that schizophrenia does not appear until late teens the reasoning has to do with the physical maturity of the brain that then triggers the expression of bipolar. Outside of the US generally the medical profession do not accept bipolar except in rare cases but even then no younger than 12. There are quite a few in the US that also hold this view.
But bottom line, get him tested and he will get an IEP created for him
Kerry