I almost feel off my chair when I read this page.
First off THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! FOR POSTING THIS. I have been taking my now 13/1,2 year son from doctor to doctor, councelor to councelor, school to school since he was a baby and he has gotten all the labels that are included in this page that makes it just jump into your face that he IN FACE HE DOES HAVE ASPERGERS SYNDROME. My son has been falsly denied the diagnosis of Aspergers!. He has:
Anxiety
ADHD
OCD
ODD
tourettes symptoms
Non Verbal Learning disorder (just missed the cut off for autism they said)cause he was able to engage in conversation with the person who tested him.
He has difficulty with phragmatic language skills.
Hyperlexia (I didnt know what was a sign of Aspergers until today!) he had in grade 4 a word recognition at a grade 9 level while hardly attending school. He is very smart and teacher always bugged him that he could do better if he only wanted to, labeled him lazy or too distracted by other things he was more into. Problems with fine motorskills and gross motor skills, hates writing (writes like a kindergartener) Huge Sensory issues, only wears certain clothes, hates socks and cant wear many shoes and likes baggy, soft clothes with the least seems as possible. He cant sleep if there is a sound, smell that bothers him or if the light isnt just right and needs Melatonin every night so he gets tired. He is obsessed with video games and guns and spaces out a lot repeting the same things over and over, like inserting/ejecting or loading an empty magazine shooting re-laoding, shooting for 30 minuts or longer at a time. He is very rigid and makes his own rules and sticks to them and has huge tempertantrums if something doesnt work out the way he planed. He cant empathize very well and often sais, I dont care, is selfcentered like a little 3 year old.
He takes things very very literally and gets upset and gets confused a lot and does not accept something if he does not understand it or it does not make sense to him.
He often calls me a liar. He has tourettes symptomes also lots of vocal repetitive sounds and movements and sais a lot of inapropriete things and he doesnt understand whats wrong about it. His social skills are very poor and he gets in fights with other kids lots out of misunderstandings. I am speachless that nobody saw the "obvious" no doctor has granted him the Aspergers diagnosis.
They where each focusing on each induvidual symptom and never pieced it together. I ended up taking him out of school because he didnt qualify for one on one help he needs and because he was the class clown and distracting others from working with his rolling on the ground and repetitive tapping, or speaking out of turn and other things and when the teacher got upset he didnt understand what he did wrong and stomped out of the class. They wanted to put him on antidepressants, stimulants, anti, psychotics, you name it. They even wanted me to put him into a home for difficult Braty children, which I firmly refused to do. I quit work and I am homeschooling him now while on income assistance. I really feel let down by the system and the lack of knowledge and commitment by our "professionals" I feel that I have studied my son and his symptoms for far longer then any psychologist, therapist or teacher he ever had ever could. I have compared them with signs and symptoms/behaviors I saw/ read about online of a child with Apergers and can now say with 100% confidence, that he indeed is an Aspergers child and should get the support he deserves and yet they never took me seriously. Thank you again for posting this.
I know now what to do. I have to note that because I didnt get the help, I went looking for an alternative and I found it. Neurotherapy
www.swingleandassociates.com
My son had over 40 hours of therapy last year and has gotten a lot better and I am confident that he will lose his Aspergers. They can even help the worst case Autistic kids in that clinic. I hope I can help someone with this testimony, dont ever give up!