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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And so we witness the creation of a new self-diagnosis fad ... Now every kid who before would just be a "bad kid" is actually a psychopath ... Line 'em up for their daily risperdal! [/quote]

I could NOT disagree with you more.  I know a child like this, he is 11 now.  He is truly scary.  He NEVER accepts that anything he does is wrong.  He never apologizes.  He plays horribly cruel and physically painful tricks on his younger sisters.  When  he was younger he would get other, gullible, innocent, kids to do things, dangerous things, and then stand back to watch, and "see" what happened.  When the other child got hurt or got in trouble, he always acted like he had nothing to do with it and was "oh so concerned that Jimmy would do such a thing."  His rages were beyond shocking to experience.  It is scary as hell in an adult and utterly terrifying in a child.

Sociopaths definitely do exist and I have long thought they were born that way.  If we can do something to change these people by intervening in childhood then for god's sake we should do so.  Even a misdiagnosis is better than doing nothing.    A bad kid is very different then a sociopathic kid and that is quite obvious from the article, and if you ahve ever read about sociopaths or even read the diagnostic questionnaire they mention in the article.

To another PP - this IS not parenting.  This is a mental condition that needs treatment desperately - I am so happy to hear they are trying to find a way to treat this condition and hopefully decrease the number of brutal and ruthless sociopathic adults in the general population.[/quote]

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