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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC has those diagnoses, asd, adhd, pda, anxiety and sensory issues.  He masks at school and craves novelty so loves visiting his cousins and behaves (somewhat) unproblematically there.  So no one sees it but us at home.  Or maybe we're just lousy parents.  [/quote]

I mean … I don’t think you are lousy parents but [b]I also don’t think a child can “mask” to that extent.[/b] [/quote]

Eyeroll.  You think wrong.[/quote]

would you like to support that with evidence? behavior does change with environment but the “masking” discourse suggests that kids are deliberately hiding their condition at school. that’s not really believable. of course kids behave differently at school v home, but the stressors are different. my kid is generally much better at home than school but he’s not “masking” at home - he has many fewer stressors at home that trigger him.

most of the DSM diagnoses require the symptoms to be apparent across multiple domains. if your kid is only having behavioral issues at home - yes that it due to something happening at home, likely including parenting style - not because your kid is somehow fooling everyone else. [/quote]

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