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<blockquote data-quote="mum2JK&amp;TH" data-source="post: 24588" data-attributes="member: 1784"><p>Wow...</p><p></p><p>givnmegryhr - my daughter sounds very similar to yours. She has taken a lot of abuse from her brother and her relationships with friends at school I find troublesome. She allows people to be mean to her but remains thier friend. I worry about the future when these relationships are with boys...then what?</p><p></p><p>However, no one had better speak ill of her brother. His Tourettes has been more noticable lately and it seems a girl made fun of him. easy child asked difficult child if he wanted her to go and kick her b-u-t-t! :nonono: easy child is the most timid and low-key kind of kid you could find, but when it comes to someone else hurting him she becomes a totally different kid.</p><p></p><p>I cannot imagine how she must feel inside, but we talk about it often and we talk about her relationships with others often. She and I have 4 days when she goes to ride her pony and we take the 1/2 hr travel time to talk about anything and everything, that's our time and I find it important.</p><p></p><p>She wants to become a phychologist when she grows up to help kids like her brother.</p><p></p><p>I try and take the good out of it too though. Without her brother's diagnosis, I don't know that she would have the same amount of compassion, patience and understanding that she does now. She treats everyone of any difference the same. She would never want to make anyone feel like her brother does. She has life skills that most would not have and it helps her relate to many different kinds of people. Her teachers are always telling me how she is just a different kind of kid, she understands things that none of the other kids in her class get, but yet she can still be a kid.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the article :smile:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mum2JK&TH, post: 24588, member: 1784"] Wow... givnmegryhr - my daughter sounds very similar to yours. She has taken a lot of abuse from her brother and her relationships with friends at school I find troublesome. She allows people to be mean to her but remains thier friend. I worry about the future when these relationships are with boys...then what? However, no one had better speak ill of her brother. His Tourettes has been more noticable lately and it seems a girl made fun of him. easy child asked difficult child if he wanted her to go and kick her b-u-t-t! [img]:nonono:[/img] easy child is the most timid and low-key kind of kid you could find, but when it comes to someone else hurting him she becomes a totally different kid. I cannot imagine how she must feel inside, but we talk about it often and we talk about her relationships with others often. She and I have 4 days when she goes to ride her pony and we take the 1/2 hr travel time to talk about anything and everything, that's our time and I find it important. She wants to become a phychologist when she grows up to help kids like her brother. I try and take the good out of it too though. Without her brother's diagnosis, I don't know that she would have the same amount of compassion, patience and understanding that she does now. She treats everyone of any difference the same. She would never want to make anyone feel like her brother does. She has life skills that most would not have and it helps her relate to many different kinds of people. Her teachers are always telling me how she is just a different kind of kid, she understands things that none of the other kids in her class get, but yet she can still be a kid. Thanks for the article [img]:smile:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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