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[quote=Anonymous]I know exactly one parent like that. I encounter her occasionally at school pickup, volunteering events, and the occasional neighborhood gathering. She’s from a country where bragging or standing out is very much frowned upon so I always imagine in my head “oh, this is why they kicked you out.” The country is English-speaking which is too bad because I would feel better if I could blame her awfulness on something being lost in translation.

She likes to ask questions and use them to fuel her brags, but she doesn’t listen to the answers so if anyone overheard the conversation it would be so odd.

Yesterday she asked me what my DD has been doing this summer. I said mostly summer swim team and hanging out. Then I asked what her kids had been up to. She proceeded to tell me all about their experience on summer swim team and then explained to me “and you might not know this, but summer swim team is very tough because it’s 5 days a week and the meets are twice a week and they last 4 hours so it takes up just SO much time but Larla broke records so it was worth it.”

My policy with her is to let her keep going no matter what. Sometimes I wonder if she has a disorder relating to processing or reading social cues, because every conversation with her is like this. [/quote]

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