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Hi;

I'm new here. My 11 year old son has been diagnosed with bipolar four years ago.

While that did and did not fit him we have went on that diagnosis for a long

time. We went for a neuropsych test back in the summer of this year and it said

something about markers of Asperger's. We also added and new psychatrist in the

mix and she mentioned mild Asperger's as well. I read one book on that so far,

still don't understand it fully. My son also sees a psychologist, now here is

where I get confused, both claim to be experts in Asperger's the psychatrist

says mild, the psychologist says he doesn't have it at all because he has great

eye contact and his IQ scores are to low.

Unfortunately because of insurance dropping our psychiatrist we were seeing we

have now had to get another, we have saw her once, and she also says that she

feels he has Asperger's.

So, here I am confused, three saying he has markers or mild Asperger's and

another who says he doesn't.

I hope to learn more about this through this group and how to handle it as it

gets very confusing sometimes. We have had to start homeschooling him because of

stress and bullying at school. What I am seeing at home is that he is agging

things on and then he claims he isn't doing anything. He does not seem to

realize what he is doing. There are rages, there are babish things, he sticks

everything in his mouth like a baby does no matter what it is. But then he is

smart even thought his scores don't show it.

Thanks, I hope I didn't confuse many people as the world I live in right now is

confusing and I'm trying very hard to learn. I spend the last four years

learning everything I could about bipolar and none of the parenting for that has

helped at all. It seemed to have the opposite effect. One of the big issues I

have now is that my bp/asp son picks on my younger son and well that starts a

huge fight that lasts all day long. Talked to the psych about it she said to

punish my younger son and leave the older alone. I don't think that is right

either, why should my younger be punished for my older's actions. But nothing we

do to the older seems to get through to him. So, I feel like I'm at my wits end

a lot of times.

Thanks,

Karla