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[quote=Anonymous]Just, wow.  The odds are he has a mental illness.

"Unless he has a mental illness, the parents are somewhat to blame."

"By three, they learned how to calm themselves and then self-advocate."

I know a kid who learned this by three, as well, from parenting like you describe.  By six he could talk his way out of anything in school, like Eddy Haskell.  You might think of him as a self-advocating savant.  By twelve, he had scammed enough of his friends that their parents got together and went to the police.  In HS, he was elected student body president with a very Trump like platform.  He got thrown out of office for self-advocating himself into one too many girl's pants.  Not sure what he did in college but after he was involved in several election campaigns.  In just a few years, he was elected to a small county board of commissioners.  He now sits in jail because he thought he could get away with taking bribes because the county was so small and backward.

The point is everyone is a mixture of their nature and their nurture.  The only thing a parent can do wrong is not asking for help.  The OP knows this and is asking, loudly.

While, you and your kid's personalities/experiences meshed so you could help them, many parents and children can never really see the world from the same view point.  Parents have to recognize this and find someone to help.[/quote]

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