It is strange that you should say that your son did not bring stuff home.  that is almost so uncannily similar to the way Ashley was.  At one point he brouhgt lots of homework home, and then in the middle of the year, he stopped doing that.  I would ask him about his homework, but he would say that he had done it at school.  However, he brought nothing home for a month or two and in fact as you say, the behaviour was more noticeable to his teacher than us.  I think basically, we are so strict that somehow he must have known that his behaviour would not be aceptable at hime.  however, at school the teacher claimed that he was an absolute monster.  It made it very difficult to beleive her as I only saw the occasional spat with his sister at home and his younger brothers.  I at first just saw that as some pjase he was going through.  The first time that I had any inkling that there was definately something not quite right was when we were called for a teacher parent interview and it was discussed that he had been repeating bad behaviour even after going through the "Steps"program that they had to deal with behaviourhal issues at the sschool.  That is a process where each punishment or consequence becomes a little harder on them if they persist in bad behaviour.  Since I knew him to be genrally a good boy that would often not make the same mistake or continually misbehave when he knew it meant privelages being removed or punishment, it really distrubed me. 

I think that that was the stage were I looked up the condition on the web and came across this board and at the time I was just surfing and researching that in connection with behaviour.  They had done his bloods a week or two before and then when the results came back I more or less felt that I had instinctively known something was not right for some time.  It is just very difficult to explain the subtle changes that happen.  I mean by the time that we were seeing just mild bad behaviour at home and wondering what the hell had got into him, was about the time that teachers were ringing up and saying he was a monster.  Because he had a new teacher take over the class before though, I almost could not believe half the things that she was telling me.  Either that they had let his behaviour get so bad before ringing us!  Then I found out that he had been sent home with a few notes but that obviously they had found their way into a bin before he got home.  Not like HIM at all.  I mean if he does not eat his lunch often he was too dumb to take that out of his bag and biff it--and I would nag him for not eating such when he got home.  The fact that he had completely changed and was being so dishonest was really something that nailed it on the head for me--where making the connection between his behaviour and high dhea's is concerned.   I also could note here that in over treatment at the moment he is very emotional and explosive.  I mean he argues with Chloe and Aran constantly---they really love eachother--and I think because he is piggy in the middle, he sort of must end up worse off where disagreements are concerned.  Chloe only has him to bother about.  He has her and Aran to get wound up with! 

When I became pregnant for the fifth time, he sulked for weeks and would not speak to me!  LOL!  I had to promise him that this was truly the last baby!  He is such a crack up sometimes.  I remember the day that we told the kids--he just burst into tears and ran off!   Chloe just thought it was cool and Aran and Kyle did not realise anyway.  I was beginning to think that he would never forgive me and then he suddenly got used to the idea.  Now he jokes about me, "Not having anymore babies--or he is packing his bags!"