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difficult child's narrative to his life -how very, very sad
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<blockquote data-quote="in a daze" data-source="post: 637859" data-attributes="member: 15832"><p>(quote) I have observed that our difficult child kids will "awfulize" to their parents more than to anybody else, ever. Instead of saying one bad/hard thing and then acknowledging a good/easier thing, they will solely focus on the bad/hard things in order to gain our sympathy, our money, our attention, our whatever.</p><p></p><p>I honestly do not think the script they use with us is the complete script they use with themselves and with other people. </p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/difficult children-narrative-to-his-life-how-very-very-sad.58930/#ixzz3H5brSLUk" target="_blank">http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/difficult children-narrative-to-his-life-how-very-very-sad.58930/#ixzz3H5brSLUk</a></p><p></p><p>I completely agree. My son does this. His uncle and his caseworker get the more positive, uplifting side of the story. I've always wondered if this is manipulation, too.</p><p></p><p>And the memory of recent and past events? Completely skewed. If you were to talk to my kid, he would tell you his father was abusive, he didn't really need to go to rehab, why did we call the cops, etc.etc. His therapist calls this "revisionist history".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="in a daze, post: 637859, member: 15832"] (quote) I have observed that our difficult child kids will "awfulize" to their parents more than to anybody else, ever. Instead of saying one bad/hard thing and then acknowledging a good/easier thing, they will solely focus on the bad/hard things in order to gain our sympathy, our money, our attention, our whatever. I honestly do not think the script they use with us is the complete script they use with themselves and with other people. Read more: [url]http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/difficult children-narrative-to-his-life-how-very-very-sad.58930/#ixzz3H5brSLUk[/url] I completely agree. My son does this. His uncle and his caseworker get the more positive, uplifting side of the story. I've always wondered if this is manipulation, too. And the memory of recent and past events? Completely skewed. If you were to talk to my kid, he would tell you his father was abusive, he didn't really need to go to rehab, why did we call the cops, etc.etc. His therapist calls this "revisionist history". [/QUOTE]
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