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no on wants to
We struggled forever to medicate our son at 3 years old. It was such a hard decision but wow his self esteem soared up so high as we were not yelling at him all the time exact opposite. He did better at preschool and making friends. During the summer when we are more active and outside we don't give him his second dose. He takes Ritalin 5mg twice a day. For us it was a safety issue always getting into everything and disappearing and be down the road and didn't get why it was wrong etc. It was downright scary. Now he can understand why it is wrong etc. He was tested than before we could give it to him. They said he has ADHD with some austic features but he is not that basically he is different and couldn't tell us how. So we did what we could medicate him, got him early intervention services throught the school district, and sensory ingeration therapy (BTW gymnastics is cheaper and better). I work with the symptoms and not the diagnosis. Sometimes we want the diagnosis so bad but it's not the simple most of the time.
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