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Originally Posted by Rock Steady
I'm glad I found this thread; I wasn't around when it was last active.
I just wanted to register here as a P of A; my 19 yo son was diagnosed in 1997 and retested in 2005. He is a senior in HS and will graduate this December. He has a big score gap between Perfomance versus Proceesing Speed. While many kids with diabilities have a gap of 60% versus 20%, Rock Jr has a gap of 99% versus 30%. He's high functioning but really slow at it, frustrating uninitiated teachers. Health professionals are reluctant to name a specific condition. It's Asperger's like with a strong indication of Non-Verbal Learning Disorder.
We are in the process of researching colleges, trade schools, and possibly therapeutic living environments. I will post some info about this post-HS stuff at a later date.
There's a lot to catch up with on this thread. So, I won't comment more until I read more.
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RS. My son 17 sounds simular to yours. His score gap is 27% which is where the anxiety comes from??? He took a beginning programming class and thought it was too easy and boring?? I still don't know what that 'gap' means except for this. When my kid jokes about the military he says if there was an order to 'hit the deck' because of incomming missle or whatever he'd still be looking around saying, "huh,? wha....t?" .....
He begain his first successful school year last year. He is so smart but still He will be late in graduating . It has been the last three years he was afraid of busting someones chops and or anxious about the social situations or being in a class with kids with more problems than his own. He is in a good emotional space right now yet he is in the developmental space most middle schoolers are. He just learning how to be disiplined.. Last year he begain transitioning into regular class where he found himself feeling relaxed. He uses an emotional growth class as a home base in case of feeling overwhelmed but thankfully ( or ironically ) it is the special needs class that makes him feel overwhelmed. He has lectured his peers many times about how immature they are. AND THEY ARE. His teachers use him as a role model but I am not so comfortable with that. He dosn't belong there really but his anxiety disorder demanded some kind of accomodation. Now that he is older ...he just says, 'man I thought
I was messed up' ( ironically refering to his classmates)' I guess I don't have it so bad' and signed up for a full load next year. ( I am kinda proud but realistic about that)
He too is planning on going to college.
Rock steady , I would like to know how your son managed getting through all his classes. You can email me?
anyway...
My son wasn't diagnosed until middle school. His early years were full of social activities and friends. I might have noticed if he hadn't have been an only child. I just thought he was perfect.:p I should have known that perfect wasn't perfect after all.
His first diagnosis from a psychiatrist was Non Verbal learning to our face but on paper it is PDD/Anxiety disorder. The anxiety is the true disorder and I blame the system it'self for it. He kicked a bully down in middle school and was suspended for it. The school cop threatned him that any further acting out and she would arrest him. So later During his assesment in middle school he yelled at the counselor. Our house keys flew out of his hand and hit me. This was infront of a room full of specialists so they knew too it was an accident. He was gestering and everyone knew it but the counselor called the school cop. She came to my house and arrested him. I would have stood infront of her but I didn't want to get arrested too. Of course, I immediatly called his parole officer and that was the end of her. ( he was out within an hour) I wish I could have had the counselors job too. Anyway he was too freaked out to go to school much. Until now.
He is still really afraid of cops.
p.s. It wasn't until after meds that my son started talking and telling me where the anxiety was comming from. I wrote so many letters describing that situation to everyone in high places. The early years were volitile and I didn't want to mess him up further by getting arrested myself, or worse. He would have become higly aggressive if I would have been put in cuffs.
.............then it would have been worse much worse. He has it in him to let loose with 'whoop ass' and I have had to work long and hard on him accepting himself. He is not bad for having those tendicies. It's all about self control. We have choices.
I found some interesting articles about NLD and PDD.
http://www.nldontheweb.org/Dinklage_1.htm
http://www.autism-support-community....of_Autism.html