I know the feeling...my kid has (from what I can tell) some different issues going on but b/c of a complex of medical and developmental issues we ended up seeing a lot of doctors and evaluators after she joined the family and we got early intervention services for 2 years to help her learn to swallow properly. It's a huge thing, contemplating the decisions we make on their behalf, we hope for their own good.
But one thing I've learned, having moved through several years now of evaluations and having finally honed down the medical/therapeutic support group to the essential few, is that really good intervention for kids is also really good for parents (this assumes you don't get assigned to idiotic and/or unhelpful and/or difficult docs or therapists). the therapy for my kid helped me figure out how to be a better parent for her--helped me figure out more confidently when to push, when to hold back, when to seek more services, when to cut them out. So I know you're ambivalent about the interventions...but the inteventions themselves might help you decide more what's really needed and what's not.
But it's hard.
It's my first comment...I've been reading for a while (i think ending up here through a link from one of the dot moms). hope it's helpful.
This is my first comment as well, and I can only say I agree 100% with Susan. My son has Sensory Integration Dysfunction. We knew from the begining that something was different about him, and we went through 10 months of the unease of not knowing. But after we got a diagnosis things fell into place for our son and for us as parents. Turns out I have Sensory Integraton Dysfunction, too, so it helped me to realize some of my quirky behaviors. At any rate, good luck with the therapies and evaluations. I believe you're doing the right thing.
TC--Believe me, the interventions will not make him "less him." With my own son, they certainly didn't, anyway. What I have foudn is that the stuff he learns from counselors, therapists, remedial tutors, etc., is how to be himself more easily and with less angst.
Hope your experience is the same.
JW
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