Aspies For Freedom

M Wrote:

The child is 7 yrs old. She cries if her parents want to go out and leave her home with her siblings and nanny or other family members who babysit. She was recently telling her mother that she didn't want her to drink coffee because she thought it was bad for her. Her mother would tell her to do something and she would be disobedient. When the parents threatened punishment, she would say she didn't care until she found out that she wouldn't like the punishment.

What is going on her? I should probably stay out of this but this kid is causing much stress at family events and almost ruined a party with her tantrum. I have decided that I am not going to have much to do with this family other than sending cards and presents twice a year.

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stay in touch and be supportive if only for the parents- I think they need your help and support. Only time will tell if this child is merely disobedient or has some sort of diagnosis...

Perhaps some sort of separation anxiety although children usually exhibit that during toddler years?

M Wrote:

They say she is very moody (what small child is not crying one hour and laughing the next?) She has a relative with bipolar but children do not have bipolar.

Children (and teens) can be bipolar, apparantly. I am not saying she is-just that it could be a possibility.

M Wrote:

Do some research on bi-polar from reliable sources. It does not cycle that rapidly and it does not onset in children that young. It would be a crime to give a diagnosis and medicate a child so young.

M, I am happy to sit corrected and learn more. I simply read this here: http://www.bpkids.org
I mention it as a possibility only because my mother, grandfather were bipolar and my unmedicated possibly bipolar son has some of the symptoms... and in the spirit of trying to help.
Certainly I can be wrong/misinformed and not helpful at times, that's clear Smile

"Symptoms of bipolar disorder can emerge as early as infancy. Mothers often report that children later diagnosed with the disorder were extremely difficult to settle and slept erratically. They seemed extraordinarily clingy, and from a very young age often had uncontrollable, seizure-like tantrums or rages out of proportion to any event. The word "no" often triggered these rages ...."

Regardless of what label is or is not hung upon this child, the reality is that children grow up. In a couple of years you may find the child far more agreeable. If not in a couple of years, then perhaps in four.

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