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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think it's interesting that you try to put some distance between your kid and PP's kid. If you do end up going to get a neuropsych or see a specialist to get more information you may find them telling you that these types of kids are more similar than you think. 
Some just internalize their anxiety and other externalize. The externalizers tend to get more attention and are labeled bad kids while there's more sympathy to the ones who internalize everything but the pain the kids are feeling comes from the same place.
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Whoa!  I didn't try to put some distance between them.  I just don't want to assume they're the same -- which PP didn't do either.   I doubt any two kids are just alike.  For one thing, PP mentioned "severe dyslexia", which is definitely not an issue for us.  Not that that means her kid has bigger issues or more issues than ours, just some different issues.  We don't know what our issue(s) are yet, so I really can't say.[/quote]

Oh, also, I would add that I of course recognize that kids can react to anxiety by both internalizing it (which my kids has seemed to do so far) or externalizing it (like PP's kid).  I certainly don't doubt that the source of those two behaviors can be the same thing.  I don't think I said (or thought) anything that implied otherwise, and certainly not that a kid who externalizes it is a "bad kid".  Gosh.[/quote]

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