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[quote=Anonymous]While I have no direct advice, I can tell you that I stole things regularly as a young child - stickers from friends and bunkmates, candy and toys from school, doritoes from friends' lunchboxes, gum from teachers' purses, items from neighbors' homes...even ice cream out of neighbors' extra freezers in their garage. I understood that stealing was wrong and tried to hide my misdeeds but rarely worried about how my behavior impacted others. I also really struggled in school (at least in classes that didn't interest me and was bullied from 3rd-4th grades. I repeated third 
grade. With all if that, I never received a diagnosis (this was the 70's). I'm sure I had/have ADD but at the time nobody
 knew how to help me. 
As far as the stealing was concerned, when I finally got 
caught by my father I was so humiliated I never did it 
again, but this was after years of it. I found my niche in the
 world - it took me finding an activity that I loved and 
challenged me and it really saved my a**. I grew up to be a law-abiding, if anything over-empathic, solid citizen.just to let you know that things can turn around. I wasn't a bad person, I was just very impulsive and immature.[/quote]

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