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In reply to the discussion: ODD: “If you’re outraged, you must be mentally ill.” [View all]YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)I have a niece who probably fits the ODD bill. My sister once described her daughter's behavior as "No one is going to tell her what to do." No one included parents, teachers, grandparents, and everyone else. And she was that way from birth! She simply refused to sit in a stroller, a high chair, a car seat, and if you actually made her, she screamed bloody murder til you let her out! Later she skipped school to the point where they were threatening to throw her in ail for truancy. She was in and out of trouble for years. She finally sorted things out for herself when she had her own child. Claims he saved her life. She could finally see what she was doing and what she needed to do to turn things around.
Her younger brother, raised in the same environment, was the most compliant child ever.