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[quote=Anonymous]My 6-year-old complains, and melts down, and refuses things he ought to like. He spent most of Halloween night face down on someone's lawn because he was unhappy about something that had happened with his brother.

My other three children are nothing like this. He has an older brother (8) and two younger siblings (5 and 3).

Special events, excitement, parties, new people, etc. give him anxiety, and this is how it comes out. Aside from never going anywhere, or always leaving, our only real option is to hope it doesn't happen and ignore as much of it as we can. If he is truly ruining the event, we leave.

I don't know if this is your nephew's problem, but "bratty" behavior that seems completely ridiculous (like being negative about the Escape Room) is exactly what my child with anxiety would do; he feels awful, so he's going to come up with a reason why the activity/people around him/world are making him feel awful.

We have floated the idea of just not going to family events, and then we are told we are being cruel and selfish not to let the relatives see the children. It is literally impossible to control what a child says or puts in his mouth. So we deal.[/quote]

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