Re: Re: RELATED TOPIC: Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Article

My question is why have the ODD diagnosis at all when there are well
established diagnostic categories dealing with pathologies in the
"acting out" area?  The author is correct that it smells funny to just
put that diagnosis on people under 18 years old.

Tom

--- kayak_krazi <kayak_krazi <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> I guess the difference in my mind is quality of life. 
> Im an introvert and I would consider that part of who
> I am, but it doesn't change my quality of life.  I
> still have friends and a job and a husband and
> children.  I think the way ODD is described gives it a
> bad rap.  There is probably misdiagnosis and parents
> that just don't want to deal with their kids.  Some
> kids, however, have a mental illness that greatly
> reduces their quality of life.  That is not saying a
> person is to blame or that they shouldn't be allowed
> to have a personality or opinions.  So I completely
> agree with you.  It's simply my opinion that ODD is
> misunderstood.  
> 
> 
> 
> --- Brian Henson <bhenson <at> bfree.on.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Just like parents don't want to be "blamed" for
> > their children's 
> > behaviour, children, themselves, don't want to be
> > "blamed" for the 
> > way they behave (by professionals). It's not a
> > matter of "blame"; 
> > it's a matter of respecting differences, no matter
> > how extreme those 
> > differences might be to the parents, children, or to
> > professionals. 
> > Being different is no reason to blame a person for
> > that person's way 
> > of perceiving life and having his/her own means of
> > self-expression 
> > (even by FC, as Tom Smith has shown many times to be
> > the way to go).
> > 
> > --- In autismlist <at> yahoogroups.com, kayak_krazi
> > <kayak_krazi <at> ...> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I was told by my son's pediatrician that
> > specializes
> > > in children's mental health that ODD involves
> > > violence.  Being 'defiant' through violence.  They
> > are
> > > at risk of injuring themselves and others.  This
> > was
> > > discussed because some ASD kiddos are being
> > > misdiagnosed as ODD.  I don't know what the DSM
> > says
> > > though.  I belong to the ODD yahoo group and these
> > > parents are suffering real problems.  Im sure, as
> > with
> > > everything, that there are many kids misdiagnosed
> > > because people don't want to deal with differences
> > or
> > > they have bad doctors.  I just wanted to add that.
> >  My
> > > son does not have ODD, but I receive good advice
> > from
> > > the parents.  Remember, there are people out there
> > > that think ASD parents are just bad parents and
> > there
> > > is nothing wrong with the kids.  It wasn't long
> > ago
> > > that parents were actually blamed for their
> > children's
> > > autism.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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