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<blockquote data-quote="Desdamona" data-source="post: 271553" data-attributes="member: 7366"><p>1. Mom & Dad split custody 50/50 - 2 days here, 2 days there. Dad & I both suspect something is "off" with mom, but she refuses to seek help. She is fine one day, raging the next, and has even showed up on our porch crying hysterically because her kid had a toy that got broken. She behaves like a sensitive 2 year old & we are always walking on egg shells, not knowing what will set her off.</p><p>2. Neither Mom nor Dad will admit there's a problem with the kid, but I did learn at a therapy session that they had him tested for delay issues once as they had concerns over being late to talk, late to potty train. Don't think he's sesitive to food textures, although he will pretend to gag on food if he knows I cooked it. His dad mentions that as a young child, he would play for hours quietly by himself, which I think is odd. Most kids do for a bit, then want you to play with them. No medications that I know of. No real friends that I know of, although he does sometimes get invited to parties, but no overnights or over after school to play invites.</p><p>3. Substance abuse issues on both sides of tree. Not immediate family, but uncles on both sides. Also, don't know about Mom.</p><p>4. We took him for an evaluation. once. I felt it was flawed because (1)Mom & Dad filled out the questionaires, and neither feels there's anything wrong, or they don't see/aren't around when he does something (such as trying to smack my daughter in the head with the shovel...) (2)He can be sweet as pie when it matters, & Mom told him to be and it was only a 40 min evaluation. (3) It was a college girl doing the evaluation.</p><p> </p><p>One other odd trait (don't know - does this mean anything?), whenever he "pretend plays" , he always wants to be the villain, or "bad guy". I have never seen this in a child, before. He wants to be the bad guy and kill everybody, or shoot them. This greatly disturbs me, Dad thinks he's just being a boy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdamona, post: 271553, member: 7366"] 1. Mom & Dad split custody 50/50 - 2 days here, 2 days there. Dad & I both suspect something is "off" with mom, but she refuses to seek help. She is fine one day, raging the next, and has even showed up on our porch crying hysterically because her kid had a toy that got broken. She behaves like a sensitive 2 year old & we are always walking on egg shells, not knowing what will set her off. 2. Neither Mom nor Dad will admit there's a problem with the kid, but I did learn at a therapy session that they had him tested for delay issues once as they had concerns over being late to talk, late to potty train. Don't think he's sesitive to food textures, although he will pretend to gag on food if he knows I cooked it. His dad mentions that as a young child, he would play for hours quietly by himself, which I think is odd. Most kids do for a bit, then want you to play with them. No medications that I know of. No real friends that I know of, although he does sometimes get invited to parties, but no overnights or over after school to play invites. 3. Substance abuse issues on both sides of tree. Not immediate family, but uncles on both sides. Also, don't know about Mom. 4. We took him for an evaluation. once. I felt it was flawed because (1)Mom & Dad filled out the questionaires, and neither feels there's anything wrong, or they don't see/aren't around when he does something (such as trying to smack my daughter in the head with the shovel...) (2)He can be sweet as pie when it matters, & Mom told him to be and it was only a 40 min evaluation. (3) It was a college girl doing the evaluation. One other odd trait (don't know - does this mean anything?), whenever he "pretend plays" , he always wants to be the villain, or "bad guy". I have never seen this in a child, before. He wants to be the bad guy and kill everybody, or shoot them. This greatly disturbs me, Dad thinks he's just being a boy. [/QUOTE]
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