Last Wednesday was the day I took DJ to see the developmental pediatrician.  It took me awhile to write because I just had to get my thoughts together.  DJ did get the Asperger dx.  But I didn't like how 5 minutes into the appointment her first suggestion was to medicate him.  No, sorry, not going to do it.  I don't agree that a child who is hyper should be medicated.  There are so many other alternatives out there, other than drugs to help the situation.  Most of these drugs for autism have horrible side effects, such as tics, rages, suicide, etc.  I'm not going down that road unless I absolutely have to. 

I do understand some people have no choice.  Some kids are completely out of control.  For example, a child in DJ's class bangs his head on the wall if he doesn't take medications.  I'm all for that.  He could injure himself.  But just to give drugs for the sake of giving drugs, no. 

She also felt my son was overweight and needs to be put on a diet.  I don't agree with that either.  My son is healthy, he's 4'6 and weighs 60 lbs.  He doesn't wear huskies.  He doesn't have any fat on him.  She wants him to go to a nutritionist.  I'm starting to believe they are trying to put money in each other's pockets. 

I did agree to cut sugar and things to try to calm the hyperactivity.  She also wants me to give him only a maximum of 1 hour of either TV/Movie/Video games/Computer per day.  Well that's not going to work either.  What do you do for a kid who is interested in nothing else?  I've bought tons of stuff.  I try to get him to play games.  It works for about 10 minutes, then he wants to do something electronically.  I'm not saying I'm not going to try but it's going to be very very hard.

We're also going to walk everyday to the playground to see if he can run off some of that excess energy.  This is a change in schedule so this is going to be fun.  We're going to go directly after school, then we're going to do homework.  I'm looking at this as an attempt for some good exercise for me as well.

I have an appt. next Friday with SSI to apply for disaility.  I have to wait until I get denied and turn that letter in to Medical Assistance so I can receive it for his OT and things like that. 

She also wants him to have an OT eval and a SID eval.  The government better hurry up with that denial for disablity payments!