My DH finally got it this year. In the past, he has really felt like if I considered DS to be "abnormal" in my head, other people would notice. He didn't want anyone thinking DS was weird. I know this comes from his own childhood where he was always the smallest, smartest kid from a very poor alcoholic single mom and he got teased a lot. It was better to just ignore DS and his outliers and pretend he was totally normal.
I tricked DH into going to see Dr. Webb speak with me. He thought we were going on a date... which we kind of were, right?? That helped but didn't do the trick. After many arguments and me insisting that we switch schools this year, DH gets it. He sees how unhappy DS was, how the nightmares are gone, that discipline problems have basically vanished, how he loves to read and feel challenged and it all makes sense. He basically did a 180 and is now Mr. Advocacy :-)I have to slow him down a bit sometimes because he's ready to go gung ho into school at least once a week.
