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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think this is a question of degrees. You're angry and embarrassed right now and you need to put that aside and think rationally. Is this a little puffery, a little boasting that's inapt, a little strutting? Or is this a real break with reality, where he appears to fully believe he is something he is not?

Years ago, we had a relative do the same thing where it turned into the latter. It turns out that was the beginnings of very serious mental illness. It was not at all typical teen boy puffery. It started like that, but it eventually went far beyond normal.

Either way you need to lose the anger and embarrassment. If it's just the first, his peers will take care of it soon enough and he would only hear what you have to say as criticism. If it's the second, it might be the beginnings of a serious mental illness and he needs your compassion and love, not criticism. Those of you who are convinced this is just normal teen boy behavior seem a little naive to me, to be honest. OP is right to be worried, but she needs to approach this with compassion not anger.[/quote]

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