Beating the odds

[tourettemom]

My son christian has TS, ADHD, OCD, and PDD. School has been a hard thing for a long time. They don't like the fact that I choose not to medicate him. But, this year all our hard work paid off! It took till 4th grade with alot of behavior modifications and talking things out, diet changes, vitamins, and some good old fasion maturaty but, he has made a complete 360 this year! We proved them all wrong They said this could never happen with out meds and they where wrong. I just want anybody who reads this to see that it can be done! I really think he just needed to be old enough to understand how he can help himself by taking breaks when he gets frustrated insted of throughing a rage attack that doesn't get him what he wants, trying to understand how he effects the people around him and stuff like that.  I'm a strong believer that they can't learn how to change their behavior if they have drugs blocking them. And if they never learn how to deal with their disability they will be slaves to drugs for the rest of their lives. Its a proven fact that kids who grow up on meds. get off them when they leave home and can't handle themselves because they never learned how to be without drugs and turn to different drugs. Any way I just wanted to offer some hope to those struggling with not medicating, IT CAN BE DONE! AND ITS VERY REWARDING WHEN IT PAYS OFF!