Well, I guess I was in the market more for reassurance
(sorry) ... I am a bit reluctant to pursue it officially because I am not necessarily in the market for yet another disorder/diagnosis. My son's neurologist seems quite keen on trying adhd meds for whatever, even though he doesn't have an adhd dx, so I also thought that maybe if this is an adhd type thing, I could/should reconsider trying meds.
Also, my reluctance stems from my feeling that almost anything can be pathologized ... it's like that saying, 'when all you got is a hammer everything looks like a nail.' I just feel like if I went to his neurologist or a neuropsych or a psych with this (and expressed enough concern) they'd be all over it with various disorders - "delusions" "psychosis," etc. And I am thinking - do I really want/need to pathologize this? Is that really necessary? Or can it really just be a quirk of the gifted/creative? Such have been known to be pathologized, no? At one time, being left-handed was pathologized.
It does not seem like a hallucination to me because he fully knows he is imagining of his own making (it is his story that he working on), he remembers it (he does not lose consciousness or memory or anything like that) and can come out if it, no problem (with distraction or person getting his attention). For the same reasons, it does not *seem* to me to be a seizure (I am a only a lay person with this stuff, though)... It's the going into it, the trigger - that seems to elude him and the pacing around and talking quietly to himself. If he could zone out without "acting out," so to speak, (keep it more in his head) that would be better.
