Guest guest Posted February 15, 2000 Report Share Posted February 15, 2000 Lesli asked: > May I ask how your daughter shares about (or doesn't share) her disorder > with peers and friends? Does she feel the need to explain past > behaviors, or current treatment? If so, how is this information > received by others? She doesn't share at all, really. When she was younger, she had occasional quirky behaviors that I now recognize as OCD-related, but they all passed pretty uneventfully on their own and none of them required intervention or drew any particular attention to her. She has not told any of her girlfriends, though one close friend (who moved to another school) did a research project for Health on OCD last year and independently diagnosed her! She has always been a bit of a loner (as are both her parents) and the only time she really ran with what I'd consider a crowd was in 8th and 9th grade. At the beginning of this year, she began drifting away from them, in part to spend more time (like lunch) with her boyfriend. He is a math genius and his friends are also charmingly geeky. She is the only girl who eats with this group of boys, a kind of Scarlett O'Hara of the pocket protector set. She HAS told her boyfriend, just recently. He seems to have handled it just fine and if anything has been more devoted lately. He had his mom help him get her an amethyst necklace for Valentine's Day. One reason that I think she was able to get away with none of her schoolmates knowing is that her worst symptoms and crisis came during puberty when they were all under hormonal barrage and acting crazy anyway. Taffy in San Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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