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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 412278" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Funny isn't it... the different view one has from the outside. When I read your post, I felt sad for your little boy, for his obvious hurt and loneliness at times... Having said that, I can completely identify with your screaming frustration... These children really are so difficult to deal with. I don't know who came up with the term "Gift from God" to mean a difficult child, but it is very apt... they are amazing tools by which to learn patience, forbearance, true generosity of spirit... they set out the royal road to heaven!! </p><p></p><p>When I said my son is an Angel in Disguise, I wasn't just being facetious... he does have such sweetness and innocence, like all small children. Sometimes I find it very hard to reconcile the endearing little child with the defiant "monster"... Do you feel that? What I would like personally is greater detachment from the difficult behaviour, a greater sense that my son is not doing it deliberately, that in a sense he truly cannot "help" it... It is of course so hard to rememeber that in the heat of the moment, as you say.</p><p></p><p>I have to say, while not being at all enamoured of the label, your son does sound absolutely like the classic description of someone who "has" ODD - the annoying, provocative behaviour that seems designed to rile people up... Maybe some people here have particular advice about that because I think it must be especially challenging to deal with...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 412278, member: 11227"] Funny isn't it... the different view one has from the outside. When I read your post, I felt sad for your little boy, for his obvious hurt and loneliness at times... Having said that, I can completely identify with your screaming frustration... These children really are so difficult to deal with. I don't know who came up with the term "Gift from God" to mean a difficult child, but it is very apt... they are amazing tools by which to learn patience, forbearance, true generosity of spirit... they set out the royal road to heaven!! When I said my son is an Angel in Disguise, I wasn't just being facetious... he does have such sweetness and innocence, like all small children. Sometimes I find it very hard to reconcile the endearing little child with the defiant "monster"... Do you feel that? What I would like personally is greater detachment from the difficult behaviour, a greater sense that my son is not doing it deliberately, that in a sense he truly cannot "help" it... It is of course so hard to rememeber that in the heat of the moment, as you say. I have to say, while not being at all enamoured of the label, your son does sound absolutely like the classic description of someone who "has" ODD - the annoying, provocative behaviour that seems designed to rile people up... Maybe some people here have particular advice about that because I think it must be especially challenging to deal with... [/QUOTE]
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