I am so glad to hear that what you have available is affordable. The schools my son would have gotten the most from where about $15,000/year. Eeek. But I would have found some way to pay it if I had known how little sympathy or concern his disabilities would get from some teachers. But you know, I think being bipolar and ADD musters less sympathy than autism. Many teachers think ADD is an excuse and not a disorder. They don't believe in it. But it is real and he has it and the bipolar makes it worse.
Well, I was an Asperger's in a Soviet school when no one had any idea that such a diagnosis exists. So I have some idea about how bad it can be. He will not go into public school if I have any doubt about his preparedness for it.
I was never diagnosed - there was no such diagnosis then. Soviet psychiatry didn't bother with such niceties. :) But I fit the description 20 out of 20. I'm 34 now, you didn't see my social skills when I was 15 or even 20. :) I learned them, and it was a bloody hard work, but I still have problems here and there.
Tell me about soviet psychiatry. I passed my foreign language graduate exam in Russian, based on finding three scientific articles in Russian in the area of psychology. All were bogus except one.
I am so sympathetic. You must have worked very hard.
I didn't really have any other options - the society there is much less forgiving than here. But at least I have a living proof :) that such things can be compensated. So far doctors are telling me that he might compensate to a normal level by the late teens. No prob. So he'll have a long childhood, so what?
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I am so sympathetic. You must have worked very hard.
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