AS & ADHD; age 11; fixated & lying..HELP

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AS & ADHD; age 11; fixated & lying..HELP
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Tue, 10-30-2007 - 12:50am

I have an adopted brother who is 11 w/ AS & severe ADHD. He's a smart kid, with social skills issues.

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Registered: 01-25-2007
Tue, 10-30-2007 - 5:08am
I can't offer you any suggestions but I can tell you that when they say they "don't know" why they did or said something they are not kidding. It is common for AS kids to be unable to explain the causes for an event even if it just happened. Maybe it's because their focus is on a narrow aspect of the event. You know, kind of like they can't see the forest because they are staring at a knot hole in a tree:) We sometimes don't realize that what we think our Aspies "SHOULD" know, they really don't even if we've told them a million times before.
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Registered: 06-25-2003
Tue, 10-30-2007 - 10:11am

Hi Melanie,


A few things which jumped out at me straightaway:


Your brother clearly needs more help and support than he is getting. A psychiatrist who says he is just MEAN is a psychiatrist who

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