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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She needs serious therapy in order to function in the world. At 16 I was working outside jobs at 20 hours a week in addition to high school.[/quote]

Kids are different these days than when we were kids.  And we can't (shouldn't) blame them because we did it to them.  [/quote]

Who is ‘we’? Plenty of children are capable of small independent acts. OP (and you, I’m certain) have coddled these monsters to the point of paralysis. [/quote]

I don’t know if coddling is what’s wrong. I was a highly anxious teen in the 80s, but I was forced more into situations like placing an order over the phone (for food or from a catalog), now replaced by apps or online, answering the house phone so being forced to interact, paying the paper delivery person when they came to the door - there’s much less natural exposure therapy. And as adults because of the internet we’re modeling less interaction with others - I text with friends and family, so my son doesn’t hear me having phone conversations, or calling places to see what the hours are, I email companies if I have a question about a bill instead of calling. I still needed therapy for my anxiety, but I was able to function better then because I had to than I think I could do now. [/quote]

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