> Hope you have good health insurance, or Budget for
> psychiatry- very expensive and age 13 ends a golden time
I have a biological child diagnosed as bipolar. Academically and functionally competent, but there was a manic episode that just stunned us. We were not prepared. Our adopted special needs kids didn’t require as much help.
Ours (non-bio sibs adopted age 4) have both been fully evaluated by a reknowned international adoption expert and neuropsychologist who has seen thousands of kids, written many books and articles, travels the world to conferences, and who adopted 7 kids himself (at least one with FAS)
In his experience 90% of us international adoptees will have children with problems that impair them, physically or mentally. Somehow we have to get them to adulthood and successful independence, Hopefully most of us will make it
Adolescence and hormones are hard enough without the baggage and unknown genetics these kids bring into our lives
My sweet precious attached loving little girl now 14 is morphing before our eyes, possibly a genetic organic mental illness cause that emerges in teens, making our autistic son look like the one who is going to be easier to live with
So- good luck and God Bless us all