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That has been one of our big worries for him and his future. He sees several providers (OT, PT, speech) for early behavior interventions and I’ve asked them all that same question. They all say based on their experience yes, but a major factor is the environment they are raised in.

Oh this makes me so happy to hear! I was hoping someone like you would comment! Do you have any advice for me? Anything that came up for you as a struggle?

Yes. We plan to be as up front and honest with him as he is developmentally ready. We feel it is important for him to know his history and potential risks for addiction.

We’ve been told that kids that know they are adopted will ask questions when they are ready and I’m expecting this topic to come up at some point.

Well now that we are officially his legal parents that has reduced a lot of worry and stress, but that’s a whole other story.

Now that all of that is off our plates, I mostly find myself worrying about how he will be in school and if he will be easily addicted if he ever experiments later in life.

He is definitely showing some signs of sensory and regulation issues, but we are intervening as early and as intense as possible and he’s making great progress. He definitely still is very active and I really worry how a traditional school setting will work for him.

Other than this we are mostly down to “normal” parental worries!

I’m not 100% sure to be honest. Things happened so fast. It started out as this maybe thing and felt like a far away situation. Then Child Services called us for a meeting on him to make a decision and 30 minutes later told us we can pick him up. By that point we were knee deep. When I saw and held him I couldn’t turn back. He was so tiny and precious and we decided to just go for it and hope for the best.