9:17 a.m. - 2007-11-29
apologies all around
I've been dealing with my son's "issues" at school since 2005, if not 2004. In that time teachers have come up with one diagnosis after another--too young, hold him back (we did); Central Auditory Processing Disorder (yes that is a problem); "take him to his family doctor" aka: check him for ADHD because he's impulsive as all get out (I did, finally, after I convinced NMH). Throughout this whole thing, I kept asking "do you think he has dyslexia? Can we test for dyslexia?" We FINALLY get him tested through the school, and they attribute the results of the testing to the pediatrician's acknowledgment of ADHD as a player in the problem. They utterly disregard any other possibility. Even though the discrepancy in the numbers is too wide to be just ADHD. Why, yes, yes I am peeved.
So we go elsewhere to get him tested. And in this process I manage to offend two psychs--the school psych, who we like; and the new psych, who we have great hopes for. Everyone else was already upset with me for not putting the kid on magic meds to make their problems all better. If I were less frustrated by the whole stinking process, I might be more willing to be hands off. ALAS, I tried that. It didn't work. So now I'm being hands in, stirring things up and offending people by appearing to question their competence. Which I'm not. I'm just at the point where I want to know STEP BY STEP what is going to be given and how the results can be used. I don't need in depth information, I just need a better quality of information.
A fact which I did a lousy job of conveying. So now I have to apologize for being an idiot and not reading things carefully and not asking questions of the right people at the right time....
If this child wasn't so much like me, with qualities of his grandfather thrown in to make it more fun... I might not be as frustrated as I am. But when one sees history repeat itself on the micro level....
And they're teaching my kid not to drink alcohol! How the EXPLETIVE do they expect him to learn to drink responsibly if he starts drinking AT COLLEGE??? But that's a rant for another time. Right now I need to take the newsletter to church for printing & folding. Just another day in suburban paradise....
