Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Twice Exceptional Dysgraphia? PANDAS? Or just gifted and intense?

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Hugs Bronxmom - I'm so sorry to hear this. Can they put him back on the stronger antibiotic?


I agree! But I am hopeful that soon you can return to your regularly scheduled worries.



Agggghhhh - this stinks. Golly, if your OverExcitabilities don't get in a twist over your own kid, then I don't know what they are FOR in the first place. Try to stay 'warm and firm' with DH. He will come around. Complain here all you want while you wait.

I am sure that you have learned to honor those feelings by now. I trust you!

Does your pedi know how long you are being asked to wait? If not, tell yhour pedi and ask her or him to call the ENT and beg for an earlier date. Make sure your pedi knows how much of a drain this is on you. Doctors will often 'call in favors' from each other. You'll know because you'll get a phone call saying, 'We just got a cancellation, can you be there this afternoon?'

Everything that affects a Gifted person is related to 'GT stuff' because they experience it in their own Giftie way. Keep us posted, ok?

Love and More Love, (because sometimes that is exactly what it takes)
Grinity

Grinity, thank you. I will definitely find some way to get him seen earlier, it's just so frustrating when everything is such a struggle. Thank you, really.

((hugs))

hi brnx, just posting to send good thoughts your way- I hope you are finding quicker help for your ds.

I just wanted to add from an earlier post to check with your local YMCA for homeschool programs as well. Here my kids go to a gym and swim program once a week as well as regular swimming lessons. They are also a great resource if I need a break to exercise or just sit in the steam room and de stress after a long week. I would never have thought to check with them and was guided to the program by other homeschool moms.

Really hoping you are able to find answers brnx. I have never heard of PANDAS but your son has peaked my curiousity.

Thank you so much for your kind thoughts... I did get an earlier appointment (early next week) and hope to "resume my regularly scheduled worries" (as Grinity so aptly said) soon.

In fact I have resumed them already... because my son is just so miserable at school! They don't explore any of the topics that interest him. He told me that yesterday they studied solids in science, "but it was all stuff I knew a long time ago. It's always like that."

His body of knowledge seems WAY ahead of the other kids, but his concrete skills, especially writing, seem pretty behind.

So he spends his whole day butting his head again a wall. (And getting in trouble.)

Also my son seems to need MORE play time than other kids his age. I mean he gets lost in a fantasy world for hours and hours at a time. It often feels like we are living (or walking down the street) with a maniac. And I know this imaginational OE will remain even when his health improves.

I am wondering if others feel that their kids need more, not less, play time than other kids their age... but maybe that's a question for another thread.

Thanks again! I'll keep you posted on the medical stuff. It really is interesting. I think this connection between antibodies and mental health/behavior is just beginning to be explored!

Big hugs Bronxmom.

I too feel that my son needs more playtime than other kids. I constantly heard when he was in school "I don't have enough time to play." And he was one of the FEW kids that doesn't play multiple sports and didn't have afterschool commitments every day. He just seems to need time to pursue things that he wants to do.

YEs, the connection between the immune system and the brain is in it's infancy. I'd love to be a neuroimmunologist in the next few years. I'm sure some fascinating discoveries are on the horizon.

I was that child. My parents struggled to find a solution to that issue from first grade until middle school. Since sixth, I have typed most of my schoolwork. Within a year or so, school ceased to require any discernable effort. I am now a junior in high school and doing well. If handwriting is your son�s problem, he couldn�t have a better one. How often does one really need to write more than a few words by hand? Computers these days are light, sturdy, and portable. Laptops with long-lasting batteries and restored typewriters can be used during power outages. A PDA with a Bluetooth keyboard is a small and economical possibility. There is no longer any reason to force a child to write by hand. Whether writing physically painful for your son or just distasteful, penmanship is increasingly unimportant. Especially if it is the former, typing lessons could change his life. His active imagination suggests that, if freed from what may be a physical difficulty, he might have some stories to tell.

Hi Bronxmom - glad to hear your appointment got moved up. Yes! Playtime is so important! The skill thing real evens out once the typing ability emerges - until then it's like waiting for puberty.

Hi Arminius - Welcome! I also found keyboarding opened up my whole world, once in high school, then in college - when spellcheck became availible, then recently as a mom with social networks like this one. A great age to live in for folks like us!

I was around during the 'heyday of PDAs' and really miss them. I had a keyboard too. What do you find is the best combo for highschool - portability v. cost v. usability. My son is starting next year. I wonder if those netbooks are 'enough' for notetaking, am drooling over the MacBook Air, and thinking a Blackberry with a keyboard might be 'just fine.'

Smiles,
Grinity