JustNeedToKnow
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Hi everyone,
I have been reading some posts about children with Reactive Attachment Disorder and I think this is what my niece has. My brother got full custody of my niece as her mother was reglecting her and had a drug addiction. My niece would have been about 2 & a half. Before my brother got her into his care she was basically fending for herself. There was no food in the cupboards, the house was a mess, her mother was on drugs and basically did not care about her daughter. I have my suspicions that there was sexual abuse as there were numerous men coming and going and sometimes she was left in the care of these men. During the pregnancy her mother also abused drugs and alcohol and sometimes didn't eat as she wanted to remain slim. My nieces mother also has an addiction personality and is a compulsive liar. I doubt that is all that is wrong with her mentally. When my brother first got his daughter back into his care she would wake up and have hysterical episodes which she would not snap out of, an ambulance was called until a bang on the wall snapped her out of it and she acted like nothing happened. She always wet the bed and would wee her pants but act like there was nothing wrong with this. Her tantrums are huge, they involve kicking, screaming and she refuses to be consoled. Her eating habits and extremely messy, she shoves so much food in her mouth that she has to be forced to spit it out, and she also has tantrums if she doesn't get food. When I was living in the same household as my niece, my daughter (she is a year older then my niece) and my niece were playing and my niece ended up screaming at my daughter and scratching her which drew blood. Fast forward from when my niece was 2 & a half to now, she is 5 in march. My brother is now living with his partner who has two twin boys who are a few months older then my niece. My brothers partner has recently confided in my mother saying that my niece is like a demon. She smears poop on her bedroom walls, when asked to go for a wee she will instead urinate where she stands, she doesn't listen to my brothers partner, tries to cause fights between my brother & his partner, hits her children and when they hit her back she acts like shes done nothing wrong, when she found out my brothers partner was pregnant she punched her in the stomach, she bites & scratches, she spits at her stepmum. When I lived her my niece I caught her trying to poke my cats eyes, pulled his tail, squeezing him until he would meow and pulling his whiskers. Also to my youngest daughter (around 8 months old at the time) she would stand on her hands and smile. Please any advice would her helpful
I have been reading some posts about children with Reactive Attachment Disorder and I think this is what my niece has. My brother got full custody of my niece as her mother was reglecting her and had a drug addiction. My niece would have been about 2 & a half. Before my brother got her into his care she was basically fending for herself. There was no food in the cupboards, the house was a mess, her mother was on drugs and basically did not care about her daughter. I have my suspicions that there was sexual abuse as there were numerous men coming and going and sometimes she was left in the care of these men. During the pregnancy her mother also abused drugs and alcohol and sometimes didn't eat as she wanted to remain slim. My nieces mother also has an addiction personality and is a compulsive liar. I doubt that is all that is wrong with her mentally. When my brother first got his daughter back into his care she would wake up and have hysterical episodes which she would not snap out of, an ambulance was called until a bang on the wall snapped her out of it and she acted like nothing happened. She always wet the bed and would wee her pants but act like there was nothing wrong with this. Her tantrums are huge, they involve kicking, screaming and she refuses to be consoled. Her eating habits and extremely messy, she shoves so much food in her mouth that she has to be forced to spit it out, and she also has tantrums if she doesn't get food. When I was living in the same household as my niece, my daughter (she is a year older then my niece) and my niece were playing and my niece ended up screaming at my daughter and scratching her which drew blood. Fast forward from when my niece was 2 & a half to now, she is 5 in march. My brother is now living with his partner who has two twin boys who are a few months older then my niece. My brothers partner has recently confided in my mother saying that my niece is like a demon. She smears poop on her bedroom walls, when asked to go for a wee she will instead urinate where she stands, she doesn't listen to my brothers partner, tries to cause fights between my brother & his partner, hits her children and when they hit her back she acts like shes done nothing wrong, when she found out my brothers partner was pregnant she punched her in the stomach, she bites & scratches, she spits at her stepmum. When I lived her my niece I caught her trying to poke my cats eyes, pulled his tail, squeezing him until he would meow and pulling his whiskers. Also to my youngest daughter (around 8 months old at the time) she would stand on her hands and smile. Please any advice would her helpful