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Your point is about you and your need vs the topic at hand.  Comparing a introvert at risk for anxiety and depression is not comparable to a language child.  Have you even thought about what you are saying.  Ok, so you labeled your kid as an introvert.  Not all introverts have mental health issues.  Do you even get the real concern?   What challenges our children face?   How much we spend on therapies, cannot work as we are running every day to appointments, etc.   we are not talking about a quiet child who prefers some down or alone time.   Do you get many of our kids do not start talking till 4-5 and if they catch up, it takes years and many still always struggle.  Ever worry if your child will talk?   Ever worry about sending your five year old to school who cannot tell you anything thing about their day as they cannot answer basic questions.  [/quote]

Whoa! That chip on your shoulder is getting ever larger.  I have an SN child who has gone through seven years of therapy (language plus other problems_.  My NT child has medical problems and has been hospitalized three times for life threatening illnesses (think well over 25 percent fatality rates).  Also two suicide attempts and two other psych admissions.  I guess I could say be thankful that your child's worst problem is that he doesn't talk much.

None of this would cause me to minimize the special problems PP has with an introverted NT child.  Just because the child is NT does not mean the child is free of difficult to manage problems. PP is right to be concerned about the possibility of possible mental health problems; they are nightmare to deal with.  it's not a picnic to be an introvert in a society that values extroverts and thinks introverts are less than.

This is not contest--my child is worse off than yours so shut up already.  If anything, having problems with your child should help make one more empathetic, not less, towards others' problems even if by some objective measure they are not of the same order of magnitude of what your child has.

Have you considered therapy?[/quote]

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