Eileen Devine
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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Of course it gets really tricky when our society is deeply rooted in this behavioral lens where we see the behaviors as intentional and willful and defiant, all those sorts of things.
But if we can take a step back and see them as symptoms, then it gives us a whole different picture on what's going on for this child.
So your question of what it could look like, I think a lot of folks are familiar with kind of the presentation of ADHD and autism.
It's things like executive functioning difficulties, sensory integration difficulties, slower processing pace, language and communication deficits.
uh learning and memory, like a very classic symptom of FASD is um having very, very poor memory, which makes of course learning very hard, it makes routine very hard.
It's that morning routine that a child does every single day.
Why can't they do it right?
Why can't they do it by themselves?
Just learning a memory, the need to reteach is absolutely exhausting for these parents.
They have on and off days where maybe they can do it one day, they can't do it the next, which, you know, not recognizing that as a parent as a symptom can lead to burnout very, very quickly.
The other very classic symptom of FASD, which I talk to parents all the time about, this is in my mind an underlying foundational symptom that is so important for us to to really solidify in our mind in order to understand our child.
is this idea of dismaturity and so it's the gap between chronological
and developmental age.
And so it's not a child is acting immaturely.
That would that would lead to the conclusion that they have some control over it and they could do better if they wanted to.
This is dismaturity, where they are a different age developmentally.
And where kids um when kids have FASD,
Parents can feel very confident about taking that chronological age and dividing it in half and having that as a starting point about where their kids are.
Now, the other piece that makes this particular diagnosis really tricky, and again, I think it's this is a theme that runs through a lot of neurobehavioral conditions, but for FASD it's very prevalent.
Is that a child can be performing in school academically at grade level or around that, where the the the grade, the academic piece of it isn't such a concern for the parents, but they might be struggling in really significant ways socially and emotionally, with friendships, with impulse control, with being able to
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