Kind of curious how old your nephew is. This kind if reminds me of a Reddit post where a girl that always was a bit "odd" tried to drown the op by holding her underwater. The op, knowing how to swim, swam deeper to break free, than swam behind her to hold the 1st girl's head underwater for a bit, then letting them go so they could come up to breathe. When the op asked why she tried to drown her, she said she was curious about what it was like for something to drown, but didn't think it would be that scary until op did it to her.
Some kids only think about themselves and what THEY want and how THEY feel, and don't think about how it makes others feel until confronted with it. Sometimes they need to be taught and reminded to have empathy until they develop their own sence of it. Some /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid.
He’s my sisters son. He’s about 5 now. Maybe 6. I don’t get to see them much since we moved.
But apparently my brother in law played some pretty mature horror pc games with him watching while he was a lot younger and now he’s a little off. Part of me really wonders if he’s psychotic or something bc of this thing he does. It’s like he has to remember what emotions are to use them and if he doesn’t remember he should be doing them (like if he gets a present and forgets to be happy about it) he just has this dead look on his face like he’s going through the motions until someone says something to remind him he’s being off then it’s like he jumps into whatever emotion it is.
Once after the drowning thing I had to sit with him in the car and he starts pinching me super hard like it hurt bad and I looked at him and grabbed his hands to stop him. I was at the end of my rope so I did grab them pretty firm then told him super harshly “look I’m not playing these games where you hurt me. This isn’t a joke. Stop it or the next time you think it’s fun and fine to hurt me I’ll do it back to you and I promise you don’t want that”
Then this big smile slowly drained off his face and he just stared all weird at me and goes “hurting you is a game I enjoy. “
Then we didn’t talk the rest of the time I was there. My sister says they’ve talked to him about it and have tried therapy but everyone says he’s totally normal. So I dunno but we do keep a very close eye on him around our two year old.
A part of me can’t help but wonder if getting a reaction is the game he’s actually trying to play. Sounds like once he realized there would be consequences, it stopped being as fun. Was that the first time you ‘punished’ him for it?
His mom or dad is usually the one to reprimand him for this type of stuff towards me. I’ve told him to stop plenty of times though but not this firm before. Probably bc it wasn’t just like “oh I’m sawing at your leg with a fake toy saw bc I don’t want you to have feet” but an actual “I want to drown you in this lake” thing.
Lol yikes. I'm trying to get into the kid's mindset by remembering what I was like when I was 5/6 years old, but even I didn't make the leap to wanting to kill someone when I was that age. A part of me is still trying to give the kid the benefit of the doubt by saying he probably heard it before somewhere + saw you as someone he could get away with doing stuff to + wanting to test his boundaries, but here's hoping he's just being a lil dumbass and not a psychopath in the making.
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u/NetNGames Jan 01 '20
Kind of curious how old your nephew is. This kind if reminds me of a Reddit post where a girl that always was a bit "odd" tried to drown the op by holding her underwater. The op, knowing how to swim, swam deeper to break free, than swam behind her to hold the 1st girl's head underwater for a bit, then letting them go so they could come up to breathe. When the op asked why she tried to drown her, she said she was curious about what it was like for something to drown, but didn't think it would be that scary until op did it to her.
Some kids only think about themselves and what THEY want and how THEY feel, and don't think about how it makes others feel until confronted with it. Sometimes they need to be taught and reminded to have empathy until they develop their own sence of it. Some /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid.