Oppositional Defiant Disorder

POSTED BY: Bytemite
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BYTEMITE

Friday, February 4, 2011 8:47 PM

I have a cousin who is a child savant. He was taking apart cars, motorcycles, VCRs and tvs fixing them, and putting them back together by the time he was five. He's also a math genius who is not challenged at all in school. He's in the third grade.

They had him on ADHD medication because he was bored out of his mind and wouldn't focus or do his school work. The medication made him aggressive, which was not his normal personality, so now they diagnosed him with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, put him on some new medication in addition to the ADHD medication.

My aunt is singing the praises of the medication because he's "such an angel now, always does what he's told."

...They're RUINING him. ._.

WULFENSTAR

Friday, February 4, 2011 9:11 PM

I could say something here.. probably full of disgust, explicatives, and a general railing against a society that thinks it just so much better to drug a kid than raise him.

But if I were to do that, I would get snarked by all the well meaning (but wrong) fools here.

So, I'll just say, Im sorry for your cuz.

You can't do anything for him as he is not yours, and you just get to watch.

Maybe one day, when he is old enough to be legally free, he will dump those pills down the toilet and reassume his role as a free individual.

Heres to hope.

Until then, Im sure you will hear all the JOYS of the chemistry they are chaining him with.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

BYTEMITE

Friday, February 4, 2011 9:30 PM

It's already permanently altered his brain chemistry, they tried to take him off the ADHD only for his aggression to jump up again after the 60 days it took for the chemicals to clear out.

That is, assuming he's not also reacting to a difficult home life, which is possible.

WULFENSTAR

Friday, February 4, 2011 9:36 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Allergies/adhd-food-allergy-case-restrict
ing-diet/story?id=12832958

ADHD.. what a fuking crock of SHIT! (sorry)

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

CANTTAKESKY

Friday, February 4, 2011 9:46 PM

That is such a sad story. It breaks my heart.

There are a lot of support groups out there for gifted kids and "ADHD"-type issues. They have found many ways to deal with the BOOMM (bored-out-of-my-mind) disorder without drugs, including...drum roll...academic advancement.

There is nothing one can do if parents are willing to use chemical restraints on their own children.

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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

WULFENSTAR

Friday, February 4, 2011 9:53 PM

Stop feeding your kids Starbucks and fifteen different kinds of candy and surprise.. ADHD seems to VANISH.

I'm of the opinion that ADHD does not exist.

Its just smart kids hyped up on too much sugar and caffeine paired with parents who don't understand the importance of well... NOT GIVING KIDS SUGAR AND CAFFEINE... and who don't understand the power of the leather belt.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

STORYMARK

Friday, February 4, 2011 10:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Stop feeding your kids Starbucks and fifteen different kinds of candy and surprise.. ADHD seems to VANISH.

That's pretty ignorant, and incorrect.

ADHD is vastly over-diagnosed, yes. But in those properly diagnosed, there is a quantifiable difference in brain chemistry.

As a matter of fact, when a real ADHD kid drinks coffee, it calms them because their metabolism reacts to the caffeine differently.

It's hilarious to see you say others "don't understand" when you obviously don't know what you're talking about. But you've never been one to let facts interfere with your beliefs.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

BYTEMITE

Friday, February 4, 2011 10:59 PM

Thanks for listening, guys. I'd heard you all talking about Oppositional Defiance Disorder before and when I heard that just casually dropped in conversation it stopped me short.

This isn't a RWED again, but just, it sounds exactly like the worst case scenarios all of you had already predicted well in advance. And I can't do anything because he's not my kid.

I guess I just wanted to tell you all, that they're already rolling it out.

WULFENSTAR

Friday, February 4, 2011 11:09 PM

Well, you COULD do something. Its just how far are you willing to take it?

I mean, you could suggest not putting him on more drugs... and instead changing his diet.

Thats the most uncomplicated way to go.

Otherwise, you could go another route. Then you would have to fight your family, deal with people like Story and Nicki, and may end up with custody of the kid.

Its really about whats best for the child.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

THEHAPPYTRADER

Friday, February 4, 2011 11:11 PM

Two of my best friends growing up were 'diagnosed' ADHD though I don't know how accurate that was. One of them I'd definitely believe it (and he was the one that had medication). Anyhow, funny thing was, these ADHD kids didn't seem to have those problems in music class. Perhaps it was the challenge or maybe music is just shiny like that.

Many of my friends now sometimes think I'm ADHD, but they ain't exactly experts either. The way I see it, I can have it (if I have it) and not suffer from it. I forget the specifics but I remember hearing statistics something to the tune of men being far more likely than women to have depression but women who have depression were far more likely to 'suffer' from it. When my work with children with autism begins (another over diagnosed condition) I 'spect I'll have a better perspective on all of this.

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