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Fearful that my difficult child has become the Identified Patient
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 625738" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>There is a book called The Normal One that talks about this. In my case I have 4 kids, the oldest two being twins. One twin (the boy) is my difficult child. A school counsellour alerted me to the book because she worried about the burden on his twin sister of being "the normal one". It was quite illuminating.</p><p>difficult child was definitely a lightening rod in the family. I could be in a bad mood and mad at everyone but keeping a lid on it till he walked in the room and did or said something then I would lose it. It is partly because he could never read social cues...my other kids would disappear or deescalate, he would walk right in and make things worse. The other kids used to even say "can't you see that mom is getting mad? stop it!" but he couldn't.</p><p>This is not in any way blaming him, it is just observing the (sad) interaction.</p><p>Good that you can see it. Try reading the book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 625738, member: 17269"] There is a book called The Normal One that talks about this. In my case I have 4 kids, the oldest two being twins. One twin (the boy) is my difficult child. A school counsellour alerted me to the book because she worried about the burden on his twin sister of being "the normal one". It was quite illuminating. difficult child was definitely a lightening rod in the family. I could be in a bad mood and mad at everyone but keeping a lid on it till he walked in the room and did or said something then I would lose it. It is partly because he could never read social cues...my other kids would disappear or deescalate, he would walk right in and make things worse. The other kids used to even say "can't you see that mom is getting mad? stop it!" but he couldn't. This is not in any way blaming him, it is just observing the (sad) interaction. Good that you can see it. Try reading the book. [/QUOTE]
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