# My extremely angry 14-year-old niece

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 21, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-extremely-angry-14-year-old-niece/265245 "2004-09-21T02:56:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-extremely-angry-14-year-old-niece/265245/21 "2004-09-21T22:16:34Z")

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Can you tell I typed right into the reply space and didn’t copy from a spellchecked WP?

;j

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-extremely-angry-14-year-old-niece/265245/22 "2004-09-21T23:26:02Z")

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> [@six\_personalities](#):
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> Enjoy the next 10 years Soup 🙂  
> One of my friends has an 8-year-old son who is hyperactive(he’s also extremely weird.His most imaginative excuse for not going to bed was that the gravity was holding him down and he couldn’t escape its forcefield.Yes he talks like that)  
> Well,his father is a strapping bloke and when he gets annoyed you know about it.Last visit to them ended with Father trying to throw son down the stairs because he’d tried to stab Mother,who was threatening to leave.That was a _fun_ experience… ☹ spending three days with them…  
> Mother thinks they both need help.Father thinks son is simply a badly behaved brat.Son thinks Father is an ogre… ☹

Or the son is extremely creative and spooky brilliant smart and probably has about 50 IQ points over his father.

God, I hate that “hyperactive” label for bright, creative, high-energy kids. It’s only a matter of time before they start drugging that kid unncessarily instead of cutting off his sugar intake and making him go outside to play. You know, like parents did a couple generations ago before there were pills for everything.

I think the OP’s neice probably just needs to feel important. Being listened to can go a long way.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-extremely-angry-14-year-old-niece/265245/23 "2004-09-22T00:21:11Z")

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> [@Dogzilla](#):
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> Or the son is extremely creative and spooky brilliant smart and probably has about 50 IQ points over his father.

Except for that little “trying to stab mother” bit, unless I’m getting the “he” mixed up from the original sentence.

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