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To: Yaelle

Moreover if you have some of the oppositional, defiant features of the condition, you seek out things like addictions because it will just piss your parents off even more.


18 posted on 12/12/2017 2:15:30 PM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: ichabod1

I dealt with oppositional defiance for about 10years in a beloved child with autism. It ain’t pretty. No substance issues yet tho.


31 posted on 12/12/2017 9:32:42 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ichabod1
Moreover if you have some of the oppositional, defiant features of the condition, you seek out things like addictions because it will just piss your parents off even more.

I do believe there's some barely conscious to ruminating persistently conscious choosing that goes into "getting back at" parents who are at least perceived as insufficiently caring. And, actually, we cannot think of any parents we've known who were perceived as lacking in caring--who weren't. Those rather few who successfully cared for their children sufficiently--were known by one and all as authentically and lavishly caring.

One could consider oppositional, defiant features to 'merely' be another verse of the same old RAD song. It's just that with those kids, the anger, rage factors are soooo intense that the child is determined to get ATTENTION one terrible way or another.

My housemate has often commented to counselees and students that parents will PAY for their children dearly one way or another--doing it right--at great effort, energy, time--or via lawyer's fees.

Parenting has never honorably been for wimps, the lazy or fools.

Though it now seems that most parents fit one or more of those categories.

41 posted on 12/12/2017 11:07:01 PM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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