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Struggling with asd & ADHD diagnosis

MCasD

Hi everyone, since my 6 year old sons diagnosis a week ago i am struggling. I am starting to suffer from depression & finding the diagnosis really hard. If feels like the rest of the family are treating it like we have just been told he has the flu or something. They are still treating him exactly the same as tho he is just a naughty child who needs telling off. He is constantly aggressive & fighting his 2yr old brother taking is toys etc..& I don't know how to react to him anymore. Obviously I have to stop him but I don't know how exactly to tell someone off who doesn't have control of himself. He just can't stop himself. Its really getting me down & I can feel it already putting a drift between me & my partner as I don't feel he understands or wants to try to understand the condition & is still shouting & disciplining him the same as always.

I guess what Im asking is who do I turn to? Where do I go? Im thinking I start with the Gp for my depression but what about help with or for my son?

im expecting my third child & I dont know how I will manage. I slowly feel like I'm losing control.

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  • Hi

    While home educating my daughter, I see many parents/children with ADHD. Some whose children had been excluded from mainstream schools due to their behaviour. Most of the parents find it vital to ensure the children have lots of sport club activities everyday. They claim it was hard to cope before they could get lots of physical activities for them.

    One girl in my daughters home education gymnastics class wouldn't just go to one class, she went to all the gymnastics classes one after the other. And she still had lots of energy left. She could literally go all day. It must have been very expensive for her parents to pay for all the classes. They home educate, so have to pay for everything themselves. They think their daughter could've coped with school part-time, but the school wouldn't allow it.

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  • Hi

    While home educating my daughter, I see many parents/children with ADHD. Some whose children had been excluded from mainstream schools due to their behaviour. Most of the parents find it vital to ensure the children have lots of sport club activities everyday. They claim it was hard to cope before they could get lots of physical activities for them.

    One girl in my daughters home education gymnastics class wouldn't just go to one class, she went to all the gymnastics classes one after the other. And she still had lots of energy left. She could literally go all day. It must have been very expensive for her parents to pay for all the classes. They home educate, so have to pay for everything themselves. They think their daughter could've coped with school part-time, but the school wouldn't allow it.

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