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 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: medication for AS with ADD

mimw
 Post subject: Meds for AS and ADD
Posted: 17 Jan 2013, 9:51 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 3,381
Everyone reacts differently. There are many stimulant medications and they can be a serious help for many kids who have difficulty with focusing. I agree with what zette says. You need a good doc who will help you with your anxiety (which is natural), while you look for the right medication and dosa...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Hygiene

mimw
Posted: 10 Jan 2013, 8:46 pm 

Replies: 28
Views: 9,468
My DD has long been resistant to hygiene and is so noncompliant that she would never take instruction from us. She is 18 now. In the last couple of years, she has gotten better. Maybe not as concerned as mainstream, but not bad. She even takes pride sometimes. Unfortunately she has never had any cav...

 Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions   Topic: Missing Time Disassociation?

mimw
Posted: 10 Jan 2013, 8:39 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 5,525
Anyone can dissociate. Yours is a little extreme, but having a daughter with AS, and also being a psychotherapist who has read a lot about AS, I suspect many people with AS suffer from extreme stress, if not PTSD. Dissociation is a natural result of the nervous system being overloaded. But also coul...

 Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions   Topic: Invisible friends

mimw
Posted: 09 Sep 2011, 10:52 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 4,467
I hope it is ok for me to post here. I am not an Aspie, but my daughter is. I have done quite a bit of reading about ASD, and am a psychotherapist. There is a subtype of Asperger's that my daughter falls into, that does "withdraw" into fantasy as a means to cope with the world feeling overstimulatin...
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