It has been 4 years and I have been really terrible at blogging. I'm finally going to be back on the horse. i'm determined to be.
My girl is 10 years old now and in January we were given a new diagnosis. She's ADHD Combined type which...I already knew. I did not know the extent to which it impairs her but I knew she had moderate-to-severe ADHD. The second part didn't surprise me either but it still took my breath away a bit. "ASD level 1" Ultimately it depends on if you listen to the diagnostician who doesn't know her and met her one time for 4 hours and his feeling on the test results or if you listen to her therapist/medication doctor who has known her since birth, he WITNESSED the lack of speech. He witnessed how she behaved, he's seen her outside of an office environment before she knew he was a doctor. She's a great kid but she has difficulties.
We are starting the Feingold diet to help her with her symptoms but getting up on that horse is daunting because it's not like you just cut out all bread or all rice or all tomatoes. It is dependent upon the brand name as to whether you can eat the bread.
I have a question for you....If you have a special needs child (Or more than 1 neurotypical child) and are a working mother who also meal plans, packs lunch for your kids every day and manages to implement a special eating plan like feingolds then i need you to stand up so we can salute you!! And then all of you are coming over to my house to teach me how to do that.
SERIOUSLY. How do you?
