Thank you, everyone. I think you're right, Carole. I need to join a support group. I think I'm finally cracking. It's so heartbreaking to go through this. My husband is pretty supportive, but I still feel alone. He works rotating shifts, so it is me that always deals with teachers and doctors.

Kim, I am going to go to the school today and request that they test him. His psychologist told me by law that they have to. I requested last year, but they suggested I wait until he is older. He's now in the middle of his first grade year, so it's time.

I just get so scared. I know that if I don't make the right decisions now, it could be his future. It can be so easy for a brilliant child with no self esteem and lack of focus to take the wrong path.

I was alot like him. I was always in the gifted classes and I was a smart child. BUT, I also never attended school and got heavily into drugs. I was bored and had no self esteem. With as bad as I was I still managed to graduate with a 3.8 GPA. I can't imagine how successful I could have been if my parents had recognized that I was different when I was young and had dealt with it. I don't know if I have ADHD or if I'm just different, but I do know that my behavior was the same as my son. Unlike my parents, I want to make the right moves so that he goes the right directions in life. I don't want him to learn the hard way like I did.