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<blockquote data-quote="Second Time Around" data-source="post: 683271" data-attributes="member: 18739"><p>Difficult Child's brother is 3 years older. We never left them alone together when they were growing up. We never left Difficult Child alone when he was growing up. Since getting the correct diagnosis and medications, we've been able to gradually leave him alone longer times. He's 15 now and can be alone all afternoon on his own. He gets bored easily and doesn't have common sense, so we still have to tell him he's not allowed to use any appliances or go for a walk farther than a certain distance. Last winter he almost set the house on fire. He decided to make a heated cat bed for our cat and placed a cardboard box on top of a space heater and then a blanket over it. He proudly showed me his invention and I immediately shut the heater off and explained how dangerous it was and not to ever do that again. </p><p></p><p>We always thought his older brother was handling things well, but the past couple of years he's been really nasty to Difficult Child. Always making snarky remarks and getting him riled up. We think it's resentment from all the years he had to put up with Difficult Child's behavior. Brother has been to a therapist several times and we've talked to him several times, but we still haven't been able to get him to stop. He graduates from HS this spring and will be off to college in the fall. Maybe we'll have some peace when it's just Difficult Child at home. Sigh...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second Time Around, post: 683271, member: 18739"] Difficult Child's brother is 3 years older. We never left them alone together when they were growing up. We never left Difficult Child alone when he was growing up. Since getting the correct diagnosis and medications, we've been able to gradually leave him alone longer times. He's 15 now and can be alone all afternoon on his own. He gets bored easily and doesn't have common sense, so we still have to tell him he's not allowed to use any appliances or go for a walk farther than a certain distance. Last winter he almost set the house on fire. He decided to make a heated cat bed for our cat and placed a cardboard box on top of a space heater and then a blanket over it. He proudly showed me his invention and I immediately shut the heater off and explained how dangerous it was and not to ever do that again. We always thought his older brother was handling things well, but the past couple of years he's been really nasty to Difficult Child. Always making snarky remarks and getting him riled up. We think it's resentment from all the years he had to put up with Difficult Child's behavior. Brother has been to a therapist several times and we've talked to him several times, but we still haven't been able to get him to stop. He graduates from HS this spring and will be off to college in the fall. Maybe we'll have some peace when it's just Difficult Child at home. Sigh... [/QUOTE]
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