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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leaving for things really early.

"Early is on-time. On time is late." -DD

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This is really true.  It's not anxiety.   It responsible.  Her punctuality may make you anxious; but, this is not something that a bad trait.  She will be an asset to the workforce and gain the trust of those around her for being dependable.   Support this for sure.[/quote]

There's a balance. I have a kid with anxiety about being on time and it can get too extreme. I cannot rearrange my life to make sure we're at least half an hour early to every event, most of which don't matter too much.

A recent example was a brunch where the host says, "arrive any time after 10am and we'll gather through the afternoon." I'm not going to skip my morning exercise class so that we can leave at 9am for the half hour drive "in case there's traffic." But that was DD's wish and she felt so anxious and upset when we were arriving around 10:15, never mind that we were the first people to arrive by quite a while!

It gets in the way of things like carpools because she'll want to leave a huge buffer that more than 90% of the time would have them arriving at the soccer field 40 minutes early. No one else wants to do that.[/quote]

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