DS#1 (10 years old) has had a medical diagnosis of ADHD since he was 5. I've always felt there was something more going on though. It just seemed "worse" than ADHD. But I've been put off by countless doctors who didn't think it warranted testing.
After fighting our insurance company for nearly a year to pay for testing, and then scrambling to find someone qualified locally in network to do it, we found a wonderful, kind child psychologist who could do the testing.
After waiting 6 weeks to get a diagnosis back from her, I finally had a long meeting with her yesterday.
I'm shell shocked.
The findings came back as high-functioning Autism (PDD-NOS).
I expected Aspergers. For some reason that didn't seem as "scary" to me. But actual autsim, that surprised me. He also still carries the ADHD diagnoses plus anxiety disorder. A triple whammy. She also feels he has some cognitive issues that may point to learning dissabilities, so the school will now be testing for that.
I feel like I'm walking around in a fog. I keep reading the paperwork over again to make sure I didn't read it wrong. It feels like I made it up in my head, that perhaps I got it wrong. But nope.
Where do I go from here?