Mary
My son is now 22 years old and we found out when he 8 years old that he had a extra male chromosome. Trav, we knew from day 1 there was something wrong, he also had medical problems, by age two he was extremely aggressive, he had push his 3 year old sister down the stairs bit a chunk out of her arm, gave me a fat lip and I could go on. But he was also the most loveable little boy and he loved to laugh, if we caught him in time we could always bring him down with humor. We went to all kinds of parenting classes thinking it was us. We had him on all kinds od behavorial plans. We finally met Stanley Walzer at the Judge Baker Clinic in Boston and he was a god send in educating us then and my son got a incredible therapist who to this day he still has, Trav did end of going to a residential school for 2 and 1/2 years to get the behavioral under control. He did and he came back and graduated from high school, became a eagle scout and this year after being out of school for three years went to college. He did real well for a long time and we were and are trying to be incredibly supportive of him. but recently he made a couple of really stupid decisions and is now facing a felony. I want to say that while he was doing what he needed to do and taking the medication he was being successful. He chose not to continue to do those things and we are in the process of trying to help redirect him back to where he was. But he'a good person who needs to process before reacting, He has always had and still does have much difficulty with social skills. I am always trying to learn more about xyy. The one thing I would tell parents today is to really be consitent with positive behavioral interventions and to make sure he learn social skills and social communication and clues. If anyone has information on this side of the age 20 I would appreciate it. If anyone emails please reference xyy-trav as I will not open emails if I do not recognize them or subject