24 Nov 2010, 8:46 pm
Sounds like she's just a 7-year old, they don't have much logical intelligence at that stage. :\ And if you're 23, you're at the stage to ignore it. I don't take my 8-year old brother seriously yet. Maybe she doesn't know what she's doing and won't even remember doing this several years from now.
The "NT" you smell is probably an Aspie. The one you discounted as "just another person to pick on the aspie guy" also probably has her own problems to deal with. You've got family problems and things don't just seem to work out in your favor. Nothing makes sense anyways. But you're not inhuman or anything, these are things that can happen to anyone. I feel like I'm repeating myself here...
okay then. let her irritate you instead of sticking up for yourself. it's not a competition you know. it's your choice and you choose to allow her behaviour to continue by not doing anything to possibly prevent it
At least in my experience, giving a rational defense to a child at that age ends up in a counter-attack of something like this:
24 Nov 2010, 9:40 pm
At least in my experience, giving a rational defense to a child at that age ends up in a counter-attack of something like this:
no your perception is not off. i have 4 kids and you can get them(well, to some extent) to stop doing things even if they don't understand why completely as long as the explination you give them sounds right to them. i don't know. i don't let my kids ridicule people. if they are acting out like that, especially at the dinner table, i will give them verbal warnings and if that isn't successfull they are sent to timeout or have their dinner removed. usually just warning them is enough although you do have to repeat the warning if the behaviour starts up again. yes, kids will be kids but they should also be able to follow guidelines set out by someone older (like the op's parents ie. her aunty and uncle) i do know for sure that by laughing along with her they are reinforcing her behaviour and it will never stop without a discussion as to why she should not behave that way and laying out the consequences.
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25 Nov 2010, 1:01 am
It's only a problem, if you make it a problem. 
25 Nov 2010, 1:31 am
I smell an NT
Are you sure you are not smelling your own upper lip?
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