Sorry, Jim. My boy dropped out of college one semester shy of a biochem degree. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a sophomore and put on Adderall which was a wonder drug according to him. I'm not happy he's on it, his sleep schedule is so messed up. He also has OCD, co-morbidities are very common with Aspies. He can't hold a traditional job.…
Sorry, Jim. My boy dropped out of college one semester shy of a biochem degree. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a sophomore and put on Adderall which was a wonder drug according to him. I'm not happy he's on it, his sleep schedule is so messed up. He also has OCD, co-morbidities are very common with Aspies. He can't hold a traditional job. All he's doing now is Door Dash. He does live independently but only because we pay his rent. He struggles so much with everyday life. We are fortunate that we can financially support him, unlike so many others. He has sisters and they know someday he will be their responsibility.
I had a psychiatry professor who told me that he was preordained for psychiatry. His mother was bipolar - then called manic-depressive psychosis, and he told me that as a high school chemistry lab assistant, he could still see in his mind's eye the lithium carbonate sitting on the shelf, and that he always thought how slipping a teaspoon of it into his mother's coffee would have let the family live a normal life. I have this horrible recurring thought that the answer to autism is somewhere right in front of our face, too, and we just cannot see it.
Penny, my daughter is 18 and I'm right behind you. I've already asked my family that - should I die who can step in to help - and they are all refusing to. There are no siblings. I am 67 and thankGod for summer camps as that's the only time I can get a break. Everything is on me and me alone. If something happens to me, she'll be out in the streets.
Sorry, Jim. My boy dropped out of college one semester shy of a biochem degree. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a sophomore and put on Adderall which was a wonder drug according to him. I'm not happy he's on it, his sleep schedule is so messed up. He also has OCD, co-morbidities are very common with Aspies. He can't hold a traditional job. All he's doing now is Door Dash. He does live independently but only because we pay his rent. He struggles so much with everyday life. We are fortunate that we can financially support him, unlike so many others. He has sisters and they know someday he will be their responsibility.
I had a psychiatry professor who told me that he was preordained for psychiatry. His mother was bipolar - then called manic-depressive psychosis, and he told me that as a high school chemistry lab assistant, he could still see in his mind's eye the lithium carbonate sitting on the shelf, and that he always thought how slipping a teaspoon of it into his mother's coffee would have let the family live a normal life. I have this horrible recurring thought that the answer to autism is somewhere right in front of our face, too, and we just cannot see it.
Penny, my daughter is 18 and I'm right behind you. I've already asked my family that - should I die who can step in to help - and they are all refusing to. There are no siblings. I am 67 and thankGod for summer camps as that's the only time I can get a break. Everything is on me and me alone. If something happens to me, she'll be out in the streets.
😭 I also hate the fact they won’t qualify for disability but are clearly disabled.