Turns out, all this time I thought that David was diagnosed with RAD. Nope. Well he is now. Frustrating when people remove and add diagnoses without letting the family know. He has Autism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar, AdHd, and quite a few others. Reactive Attachment Disorder *RAD” is now one of his Axis I diagnoses….
Category: attention seeking
Attention Seeking RAD
I tend to forget, and I shouldn’t. Every action is designed to get attention. Every behavior is designed to get attention. I asked him this morning, “what do you gain from this behavior?” His answer? “I don’t know” —————— I wish that he did. I would much rather award positive behavior, than the negative…