Penny Williams
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard 11 Nov
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You know, I I once he started having the same struggles in first grade that he did in kindergarten, I immediately started Googling and trying to figure out what was going on, you know, and so I was reading tons of material about
Learning disabilities, a little bit about ADHD.
And I had convinced myself before we ever had the evaluation that it could not be ADHD.
had to be some sort of learning disability.
And so, you know, I went in there with the wrong mindset and then was shocked when I got the outcome.
And so it took us a few days, but you know, we felt like we were had already desperately tried everything we could think of.
And the physician was right, you know, the teacher was doing everything that she could in the classroom to accommodate.
And he was really a very sad child.
When I look back at photos of him from like kindergarten and early first grade, he was always crying.
He was always feeling like
he couldn't do what people wanted him to do, you know, and it was really
really impacting his life from a mental health standpoint.
And so we decided that we would try medication and if it wasn't a good outcome, if the side effects were not appropriate, you know, whatever happened, we could always stop.
But we've just felt desperate to do something else to really help him.
And so here we are nine years later, he has additional diagnoses of dysgraphia, executive functioning deficits, written expression disorder, and high functioning autism.
Um, and he also has a gifted IQ, so he has quite the alphabet soup.
And you know, early on when I couldn't figure out what was going on, I started blogging.
I said, if I put out there what's happening, maybe somebody will find us and tell me what's going on, right?
Because just desperation.
And and nobody found me until I started using
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