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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

You MUST have this child evaluated. Her behavior is not normal. My kids and other relatives between themselves have bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, autism and severe inattentive or hyperactive ADHD, but they are not intentionally and consistently cruel. Your child's behavior reads like oppositional defiance disorder, which occurs in some instances of autism spectrum disorder.

If you're in the DC area, I highly recommend the Stixrud Group in Silver Spring, MD. Their psychologists are very experienced. A full neuropsych will last 2 days and about 8 hours and cost you upwards of 5K, depending on the battery of tests they give her. The tests are not the same for each individual, some will be added specifically to address descriptions of the patient from parents/teachers. They will determine which tests to give her in a two hour long conversation with you, plus questionnaires filled out by you and two of her teachers. They will also explain her test results in a feedback session, and write a detailed formal report, with recommendations for future management of any diagnosis, including school services and accommodations, targeted therapies, and psychiatrist follow-up for meds, if applicable.

Please call a psychologist's practice ASAP because the best ones have a few months of back-up and you need to address this before it gets worse. It will take years to fully understand what you can do with her, and what resources are at your disposal, once you have a diagnosis.

Best of luck. It's very hard.

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Me again. I posted before reading the other responses. "Therapist" is a vague term, and if you're talking about talk therapy, then it will be of no use whatsoever currently, because what she needs is an in-depth examination of how her brain works, if she's at all amenable to it. Therapists are not licensed to conduct neuropsychological examinations - only psychologists are, ones with PhDs. It's a completely different field of expertise. A therapist might be useful for the "victims", to seek ways to process their emotions :-) And for your child, in the future, in a DBT/CBT setting (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), to learn ways to be more self-aware and less reactive to others, but only if she recognizes she has a problem and wants to do better...[/quote]

I said above, but we are already in the process of having her evaluated.

She is in perfect 100 percent denial that there is any problem, and there is absolutely no acknowledgement of her own limitations or that outside guidance might help her in any way.  It's really a personality mix that seems impossible to work with, so we are planning on getting some professional guidance on that.  [/quote]

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