For years I have been attempting to find out what was wrong with my son. First off his is very intelligent but on the other hand he has a learning disability, and is terribly hard to teach and we have a difficult time with discipline issues. When he was 6 I had him tested for things, because I saw a major problem with his learning ability. Many people would say it was just his age but this was not true I could feel it in my heart he just didn't learn like other children. First they said he was Adhd. Then they said he was bi-polar with extreme ODD. The psychiatric office we were attending did not really seem to be helping him. Other than diagnosing him enough so the school would test him. All they kept saying was that he had such a high vocabulary that he could not possibly have a learning disability. When they found out that he did have a learning disability they were very surprised. Then the school system was pulling him out of class so many times a day that he was missing what he could have been learning in class and he was being picked on quite alot. After, 2 times in first grade and a half of a year in 2nd grade we decided to home school him. We just did not think that he was getting what he needed out of school. It is hard to teach someone who wants only talk about computers or hamsters or games or anything else in extremes he could possible learn about. don't forget he doesn't forget anything. So we brought him home. Now this has been one struggle after another. sometimes he learns fantastically and others its like he is so zoned out that I can't hardly teach him. Sometimes he is so arrogant, for example he would have a breakdown if we did not do some thing in a particular order like today. He wanted lunch at one well we slept in and did not even eat breakfast till 11.30. So, I told him that we would eat in a little bit. Well he starts to tell me how horrible I am for starving him and how I am not feeding him, and he starts to have a breakdown about not having lunch at one, this happens everyday. I* thouhgt this was a discipline issue, and some of it is. So we decided to have him see a psychologists, and a behavioral specialists. After about four months we still haven't gotten a diagnoses, finally I ask the psychologists what she thought. Well she tells me she thinks he has Aspergers syndrome. At first I am not sure what to think. I am not even sure what it is. Well yesterday I start researching it and find that it is a type of autism. It sounds exactly like him. So all this time I could have been helping him instead of butting heads with him. I am very over whelmed with this I hope I can do this.
