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[quote=Anonymous]Wow.  No way.  Teenagers are one thing, teens with aspergers are generally easier.  Suicidal teens generally don’t threaten to suicide, they just do it.  This child has simply learned that threatening it once got her out of doing anything she didn’t want to do.  HOWEVER!  That doesn’t matter.  It’s not your child, not your business how she behaves except when with you.  You need to stop sitting with them (a 14 year old and a 10 year old only need a sitter if there are special needs, and teens with Aspergers generally are high functioning enough to not need an adult every second, but it sounds like you were hired due to the suicide threats).  You need to take a step back from both kids, just be there for your friend, to talk, sympathize, mostly just to listen.  Leave your preconceptions at the door and just be her friend.

I’ve been a nanny for several teens, tutored plenty of others, volunteered with even more.  Teens aren’t easy.  They’re mouthy, independent, vulnerable, emotional, impulsive, irrational.  But at the end of the day, they’re children caught in the middle of a huge transformation, and every year it just gets harder because the lines between child, teen and adult blur even more.[/quote]

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