Melissa Neff
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1,584 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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Um, these kids tend to make actually really good eye contact and to have some pretty good
superficial social conversational strategies, they they might be more reciprocal than a child with Asperger's, for example, like ask how you're doing, come in and be able to do some social niceties.
But when you dig
you know, when you try to get deeper in social interactions, these folks tend to actually lack
depth in their understanding of sort of how to maintain that interaction.
So those are those are some of the characteristics and
And these kids are also a little bit different than your typical sort of Asperger's kids in the sense that because they're a little more socially savvy.
They tend to use social manipulation pretty well.
So these kids actually are pretty good at
at deceiving or conning or lying, um, or making really good excuses that make them s um not seem quite as odd as potentially some people with autism may seem.
But then when they are placed in situations where they're feeling under
А demand or under pressure they display.
The most outrageous
Impulsive.
Um, disregulated meltdowns that you've ever seen.
And they often get misdiagnosed then, like with a mood disorder, such as bipolar disorder, because they will often have these intense rages in response to ordinary demands.
That's a great question.
And I'm not sure that I know the answer to that.
What I can say is that and this maybe gets into sort of how
This is different than something like oppositional defiant disorder or an anxiety disorder.
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