Extremely joyful kids with anxiety

[Anonymous]

My 5 yo DS is like this -- cheerful, easygoing, quick to laugh. But if you touch on something he is anxious about (example, new experiences like going to swim class) he completely transforms, he is a screaming mess and you cannot reason with him. Two classes later, he's back to cheerful and easygoing. It's like Jekyll and Hyde. We're working on it. But people who see him in one mode are then amazed when they seem him in the other.