A common symptom
One of the things that is quite common for children who identify as trans and I say this from hearing the thousands of other stories, which all have a very similar trajectory you'll find, anyway, one of the steps is running through illnesses and saying they think they have them. They see it on tik tok or read about it on Discord or wherever. They'll convince themselves they are very ill. Some kids have multiple things like tourettes, bipolar or such likes. Pretty much every parent in this situation will recognise this experience. A tourettes hospital in Boston saw an uptick during lockdown of adolescent kids due to tik tok. My two tried for a few months with the tourettes but we didn't bite and it faded.
I tell you this and beautifully just to illustrate the constant pressure and difficulties parents experience and the transbombs I talk about that keep happening. I've spent the day today talking to my eldest, who is convinced she has something worse than dysmetropsia(??!!)*. She wants a private one off appointment with a psychiatrist to diagnose her with something! As if it's that simple. Now she thinks I'm blaming her autism and don't know anything! 😳🥺 (Another one is rewriting history. Most 'trans' kids will do it at some point)
I managed to steer her to her GP in the first instance. 🙏 Unfortunately they're not the best for this and the o
Scary name but turns out to common in adolescents when under stress. I even experienced this weird phenomenon when I was younger. I had no clue what or why it happened. Sometimes it was cool, other times discombobulating. Of course when I told her this, in an attempt to help her see it was not an unknown, she freaked at me for daring to maybe understand.🙄
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