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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs Smith" data-source="post: 102059" data-attributes="member: 3893"><p>This is my son but with Learning Disability (LD)'s and his word is retard instead of spastic. medications have helped a little to reduce this tendency but we still hear the verbal garbage. I'm so hating puberty!</p><p></p><p>When he's done venting though, he crumbles to the floor and cries, apologizes and the real issue - sadness and low self-esteem spills out (I'm useless, stupid, why don't you just kill me, I can't do anything, nobody likes me, my life is so hard, etc....) I try to use this time to talk about things he does well, give ideas of how to better handle frustration and anger and point out his unrealistic expectations of perfection. It breaks my heart to see how much pain he's in and not really be able to fix it.</p><p></p><p>The other thing that helps is a social skills class with a group of similar kids. Still, he has adopted a superiority complex as a coping mechanism around other people and at school. I'm hoping once he starts to feel better about himself, this will go away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs Smith, post: 102059, member: 3893"] This is my son but with Learning Disability (LD)'s and his word is retard instead of spastic. medications have helped a little to reduce this tendency but we still hear the verbal garbage. I'm so hating puberty! When he's done venting though, he crumbles to the floor and cries, apologizes and the real issue - sadness and low self-esteem spills out (I'm useless, stupid, why don't you just kill me, I can't do anything, nobody likes me, my life is so hard, etc....) I try to use this time to talk about things he does well, give ideas of how to better handle frustration and anger and point out his unrealistic expectations of perfection. It breaks my heart to see how much pain he's in and not really be able to fix it. The other thing that helps is a social skills class with a group of similar kids. Still, he has adopted a superiority complex as a coping mechanism around other people and at school. I'm hoping once he starts to feel better about himself, this will go away. [/QUOTE]
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