What the psychiatrist said last night! | Autism PDD

THat is wonderful news! I'm so happy for you!SO glad to read your post!!!!!AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ah, I'm crying now! Happy tears. What an amazing and wonderful
development!

Payne's Mom,

    Zayzer wrote:

    Yes, we parents of kids who may not be in the "window" need to hear that.  There IS always hope. Keep sharing the successes.  I  hope to post some soon.

  my thoughts exactly.  I am so happy for you and Payne. 

Concernepa.

Congratulations!!!!!

But that is soooooo amazing!!  I'm so happy for you and Payne!! 

It's funny you said something about your friend saying something about the brain changing every 7 years, my sister (a nurse in a psychiatric ward) just told me she read something about the brain function making changes around 7 years old...Mason is going to be 7 next March, so she was trying to make me feel better and told me that by this time next year Mason will be a completely different child.  I kind of laughed it off, but hey who knows now?!?!

Congrats again!!  I'm doing a happy dance for both of you right now! 

I like that you stated you did nothing extaordinary ( except for being an awesome mom) I find it easy to get caught up in the all the things I *could* do for my son if only I had the time, money, resources....I am learning to give up on the guilt I felt for not getting a dx sooner, not doing 30 hr of ABA / week, not being more of a super-mom.

Like you, I beleive my son is working as hard as he can. It took my SLP to explain it to me - making Sam go to speech 4 times a week is not going to make him talk clearer, faster. He is doing the best that he can do and pushing it will not help. So, I backed down on the SL lessons. and, of course, Sam proceeded to make great leaps forward on his own. Last year his peers could not understand Sam's speech. Last week Sam sat with a friend on the bus, whispering about a common interest(Runescape) for over an hour.

I'm not trying to overtake your post, just wanted to share my experiences for other moms wondering what the future may hold for their child.

mama to Sam 8yrs, PDD NOS OCD ODD PPD and Alex 2 yrs

I believe it is true.  My 8 year sure went through a change last year.  Both of my daughters changed alot in third grade.  They all of a sudden became more mature more accepting of responsibility.  They don't always think that I know everything. (But the soon learn differently

I cant wait for my son to turn 7.  His Developmental pediatrician did tell my last year that he has seen kids make alot of progress between 7-9.  He wouldn't comment on what happened after 9 though.  I guess with the start of puberty its anyone guess.

Never feel guilty about posting an accomplishment.  You have both worked hard and I am sure it feels as much of an accomplishment to you as to him.  We put our hearts and souls and a tremendous amout of energy and time into our kids.  Celebrate!  Have a party!  I would..

 

Post away bubby!  I love it.  So glad to read it...really.

It must be such an amazing feeling to go from one extreme like that to the other.  SMOOCHES to the lot of you.

That is wonderful and great news. Wow is more like it! I am trying to look at it from the point of view that you guys can live vicariously through us until your munchkin(s) get to that point where they are ready to swing from the trees & shout from the rooftops - "I'm free!" So, we go to the psychiatrist last night for medication management. I'm sitting in a chair facing the doc and Payne is on the floor playing with some matchbox cars and dolls. I'm talking to the doc telling him about how well Payne has been doing at school and daycare - for the most part...he asks Payne a few usual questions...Payne answers with NO prompting...PERFECT eye contact. The doctor is taken aback - what have you done? When did he start doing that? I said about 2 weeks ago his vocabulary just flourished and his eye contact a month ago (according to the ped neuro) was dead - on.  He told me that he would categorize Payne as...wait for it...wait for it...MILDLY affected now! We were once Mod-Severe - as in a couple of months ago!!!!!! OMG! I so freakin' BEAMING! I was so upset when I heard that Jenny McCarthy's kid within 2 years was doing so much better when she was writing the book...and now that it is out and people are reading it - I can say that Payne is "coming back to me". He CAN communicate VERBALLY now. He's still having melt-downs and testing authority, but not to our usual level or frequency. I AM SO EXCITED for all of you to get to experience this...and I AM SURE YOU WILL! I have done nothing extraordinary...I promise you. I have posted before about what we've done and tried... he's finally coming out of his shell! That is so FANTASTIC!  Congradulations to you and Payne.It is like witnessing a miracle huh? I am so happy for you and Payne:) Miracle...that's an understatement. Seriously. It is as if I have him back...we still have quirks, but who doesn't. I am so darn happy for you my grin is splitting my face!  What wonderful, terrific news.  There is always hope!I am so happy for you.  You must be just ecstatic. 

I am so happy to hear that!  My son is just a year younger than Payne.  That gives me so much hope.  That "window" of opportunity scares me.  I love to hear about kids older than my child moving foward.

Way to go!!

Thanks for sharing...I feel a little guilty about posting about our great accomplishment...or better PAYNE'S progress/improvement. We're really proud of him...I have braces and they're KILLING me right now from smiling so much! I was talking to a friend of mine that is taking psychology and she said that every 7 years the brain changes ... or something like that...I wonder if that is true? There is ALWAYS hope and that is why I've posted this here. I mean, literally, 2 months ago I was worried about him academically and worried that he was going to get thrown out of daycare for hitting! He is 7 1/2 so I don't think there is an absolute "time frame".  I know he is working just as hard as I am though. Everyone at my office has been asking me about him w/ all the press going on about it...I brought him in about a week and half ago again - they hadn't seen him in about a year - and they were SURPRISED to say the least, but his doctor was FLOORED! Yes, we parents of kids who may not be in the "window" need to hear that.  There IS always hope. Keep sharing the successes.  I  hope to post some soon.
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