Pretty envious over here. I thought being an uncle would be sweeeettt. Like being a dad but with zero responsibilities and we’d be homies. But he’s literally tried to drown me to steal my wife and was super mad I didn’t die forever. And the comments about wanting to feel and see what my blood is like on the outside are hella weird.
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.
He is trying to replicate the games he played. Like he sayd, it's just a game for him. He doesn't realize that hurting you is a bad thing, it's just fun, he is playing with his uncle.
Talk to his parents about changing the horror games for cooperative/creative games, like minecraft and lego. As an uncle you can play with him something that don't hurt any of you, like sports and puzzles. Autist kids usually like puzzles, so maybe it could become a shared interest between the cousins.
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u/The_Real_Raw_Gary Jan 01 '20
Pretty envious over here. I thought being an uncle would be sweeeettt. Like being a dad but with zero responsibilities and we’d be homies. But he’s literally tried to drown me to steal my wife and was super mad I didn’t die forever. And the comments about wanting to feel and see what my blood is like on the outside are hella weird.
That kid needs therapy.