After his behavior in school over the past week and his behavior at the Psychiatrist’s office, I am wondering if Dominyk’s future has much hope. His birthmom was diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, and he is showing signs. I was hoping it wasn’t hereditary, but more and more people are pointing to that as a possibility.
We have had him since he was nine months old and have worked VERY hard with professionals and psychiatrists to medicate him properly and have gotten services through the county to work with him. He has no guile and he is truly a tender hearted kid. But when his SEVERE ADHD and his OCD kick in, along with increased anxiety, he is about as socially inappropriate as you can imagine.
Today there was a magnetic writing board in the office that you can erase and he drew many pictures for the psychiatrist of male body parts. Fortunately, his proportions were way off so she couldn’t tell what they were. He was disruptive throughout the visit. Medication and therapy don’t seem to be doing the trick.
if a child comes at 8, or 10, or 11 and you pour your life into them, I guess you don’t expect to be able to undo all those years of neglect or abuse.
But if a kid has a very loving, nurturing environment from the age of 9 months on, you somehow believe that environment will win over heredity. And this time, it may not. And that one, the last one, the youngest one, the one who came the youngest, if we can’t make a difference for him, then that may be the heartbreaker.
My heart goes out to those who think that “younger is better” because they can “fix them.” It just makes the pain all the much greater when you realize you can’t.
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