As a little boy, Jazpa Pinnell was so hyperactive he'd run up and down the balconies at school, was unable to concentrate in class, and his meltdowns were so bad friends and family would tell his mum he needed a "belting".
"I was thinking I was a bad parent," mum Sam Pinnell said.
But her fears were allayed, and the Queensland teenager's life changed for the better at age seven when he was diagnosed with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
