BusynMember
Well-Known Member
I have two.
My daughter who used drugs did not REALLY show gfgism that early, except that she was overly sensitive and would cry if you hurt her feelings (which was often). At about age ten she told her peers a very strange lie. To get kids to like her, this shy child told everyone her father owned a candy factory and that she could get anyone any candy they liked. Then she'd beg me for money. WHen I said "um, no" she started shoplifting candy.
After we moved to Wisconsin, when she was in seventh grade, she was lost and lonely. I kick myself for having moved her at such a sensitive age--her being so shy. She sat at lunch by herself for months until suddenly the "bad" kids befriended her. At twelve years old she was one of the most popular kids at school after that--and she became a full-blown difficult child.
My autistic son was much more direct. We adopted him at age two. When he started banging his head against the wall, echoing words, tantrumming every time we needed him to move from one activity to another, never sleeping, babbling rather than speaking words etc. we knew something was up. And we knew it wasn't his fault. The long journey to an obvious diagnosis started almost as soon as we made him our son...
My daughter who used drugs did not REALLY show gfgism that early, except that she was overly sensitive and would cry if you hurt her feelings (which was often). At about age ten she told her peers a very strange lie. To get kids to like her, this shy child told everyone her father owned a candy factory and that she could get anyone any candy they liked. Then she'd beg me for money. WHen I said "um, no" she started shoplifting candy.
After we moved to Wisconsin, when she was in seventh grade, she was lost and lonely. I kick myself for having moved her at such a sensitive age--her being so shy. She sat at lunch by herself for months until suddenly the "bad" kids befriended her. At twelve years old she was one of the most popular kids at school after that--and she became a full-blown difficult child.
My autistic son was much more direct. We adopted him at age two. When he started banging his head against the wall, echoing words, tantrumming every time we needed him to move from one activity to another, never sleeping, babbling rather than speaking words etc. we knew something was up. And we knew it wasn't his fault. The long journey to an obvious diagnosis started almost as soon as we made him our son...