Posted by Minnie-Haha on December 23, 2003, at 18:15:55
Have spent the last 18 months obsessing over what's "wrong" with my 9-year-old son. My anxiety level rose to the point of losing sleep and getting depressed. The upshot is, after all this time, we've gone from thinking he might have Asperger's Syndrome, to getting an ADHD Primarily Inattentive DX (which everyone who knows him disagrees with, including us), to coming around to learning that a lot of his "problems" (social and motor skills deficits, sensory issues, emotional sensitivity) can be explained by his giftedness (WISC-III of 143).
This has lead me to question my own DX of BP2. I have read a lot about giftedness and wonder: Could this be me, too? Anybody out there read about the "overexcitabilities" of the gifted, or about Dabrowski's theory of "positive disintegration"? I've actually thought about shelling out dinero for an IQ test.
My BP2 DX just doesn't "feel" right to me, but my pdoc doesn't seem interested in considering other possibilities, and frankly -- if it IS right -- I'm afraid to treat it any differently. Sometimes I get bummed just thinking I'll spend the rest of my life operating under, getting therpay for, a label that is incorrect.
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