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[quote=Anonymous]Just doing a reality check--I have a teenager with special needs and at times when she has been overwhelmed I pitch in with doing the daily stuff like laundry and basic room cleaning.  When she is not stressed out she does this stuff herself.  I  have learned to be sensitive to periods where the anxiety is building up and view my help as taking steps to help keep the anxiety in check.

But from a recent thread on Tweens it seems this is very much a minority view--and parents throw around terms like entitled, self-centered, and lacking empathy to describe a teenager who is spending so much time on her schoolwork she barely has time to eat, shower, and sleep and has no screen time and has asked her mother to do her laundry for her (admittedly in perhaps not the nicest way):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/513213.page

Mine is the one post suggesting that DD's mom make an effort to understand what is going on that schoolwork is taking up her entire day--perhaps an LD, perhaps something else.  I think DD is probably very stressed; others think she is a spoiled brat.

Have too many years dealing with two SN kids clouded my judgment?

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