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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 621058" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>You may both be right...when my son was at a therapeutic boarding school (or was it when he was at a wilderness treatment center?), there were three boys there for "internet addiction." It was a nascent diagnosis at the time, but I think it is real. I think one of my easy child's (16) is addicted to the internet...smart boy, great athlete, getting C's and D's in school and spending 6-8-10 hours/day on the internet...he is so sneaky at hiding it, it pops up on his computer, his ipad, his iphone...he always says he has it on for homework, and I am not fast enough to see...in the end, as with difficult child, he will be accountable for his own actions, and live with the consequences..he narrowly escaped being "not invited back" to his school (went into midterms with a D in chemistry)..only because his dad and I pay a tutor to work with him, and I venture to say that 80% of his studying is done in the presence of his tutor..the rest is in dribs and drabs, and always always with the temptation of the internet right there...a place he used to go just for fun but now allows him to escape the knowledge of his school failures...a lot like difficult child and drugs. I think the internet is a real addiction, especially for the socially awkward like your son, jkf</p><p></p><p>I also think that there are actual sociopaths, people genetically lacking in empathy. REally smart ones are corporate raiders and the soulless financiers who overlended and brought the country to its knees. Middle smart ones are just mean and have a litany of failed marriages and miserable coworkers (and a chain of jobs) and neighbors behind them...and less competent ones are some of our difficult children</p><p></p><p>There is an interesting book called The Sociopath Next Door that talks about the sociopaths among us...we think of Ted Bundy, or John GAcy, or Hitler when we think of sociopaths, but really they walk among us...probably 4% of the population. </p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 621058, member: 17269"] You may both be right...when my son was at a therapeutic boarding school (or was it when he was at a wilderness treatment center?), there were three boys there for "internet addiction." It was a nascent diagnosis at the time, but I think it is real. I think one of my easy child's (16) is addicted to the internet...smart boy, great athlete, getting C's and D's in school and spending 6-8-10 hours/day on the internet...he is so sneaky at hiding it, it pops up on his computer, his ipad, his iphone...he always says he has it on for homework, and I am not fast enough to see...in the end, as with difficult child, he will be accountable for his own actions, and live with the consequences..he narrowly escaped being "not invited back" to his school (went into midterms with a D in chemistry)..only because his dad and I pay a tutor to work with him, and I venture to say that 80% of his studying is done in the presence of his tutor..the rest is in dribs and drabs, and always always with the temptation of the internet right there...a place he used to go just for fun but now allows him to escape the knowledge of his school failures...a lot like difficult child and drugs. I think the internet is a real addiction, especially for the socially awkward like your son, jkf I also think that there are actual sociopaths, people genetically lacking in empathy. REally smart ones are corporate raiders and the soulless financiers who overlended and brought the country to its knees. Middle smart ones are just mean and have a litany of failed marriages and miserable coworkers (and a chain of jobs) and neighbors behind them...and less competent ones are some of our difficult children There is an interesting book called The Sociopath Next Door that talks about the sociopaths among us...we think of Ted Bundy, or John GAcy, or Hitler when we think of sociopaths, but really they walk among us...probably 4% of the population. Echo [/QUOTE]
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