Here's a secret. All the years of parenting my son, I've been convinced he's RAD. I have talked to doctors and counselors about it, but was mostly told, RAD is something that you only see in adopted kids, foster kids, abused and neglected kids. Mine is a birth son, and birth children just aren't RAD.
Still, I was pulling my hair out until I read some stuff about RAD and ODD. It was like "bingo!" It *so* described what I was seeing with my son every day. Of course that has led me to wondering how my birth child could have these issues. (He also fits the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome and we have been told by doctors and counselors that he's definitely got Sensory Integration Disorder.) I tried to breastfeed him for 7 weeks during which time he was Failure To Thrive, starving to death. Lack of sufficient calories in the first 7 weeks could have affected him. I tried Cry-It-Out with him, and I am sure that didn't help. From very early on, he wanted everything in his life to be on an exacting schedule- was that a symptom or a cause?
Now he's a teen though. And as ever, can we lock horns over issues. Some of the best help I finally have gotten over the years:
info on social stories
Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach
and Christine's blog (linked above)
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When you posted your dread tightening pics on f/b I was thinking how much the girl tightening your dreads looked like Christine and then I was like whoa that is Christine. Two of my fave online people hanging out. It is a small world wide web after all.
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