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Asperger's/PDD

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Marrah_G

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Wed Aug 13, 2014, 08:02 PM Aug 2014

My 20 year old son was diagnosed last week [View all]

Aspergers, ADHD and MDD after a neuropsych evaluation. The doctors said he should have had this test long ago but I had never heard of it. I had suspected Asperger syndrome for a while but the Docs kept misdiagnosing as just ADHD. Apparently this happens a lot.

Now he has access to a bunch of different programs, is part of a research group, can get ssdi, special programs at community college and I don't have to worry about him ending up under a bridge if something happened to me.

If you suspect something is wrong, something more then ADHD, get your child tested. I wish I had been more of a bulldog about it years ago. His first 20 years wouldn't have been so hard.

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