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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.