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16 year old boys, a mystery.
Jan. 7th, 2013 04:26 pmDo you think this is odd behaviour for a 16 year old boy?
My two year old has a vocabulary of only about 50 words, but he decided yesterday that 'Michael', the name of my 16 year old cousin, was going to be one of his words. He exclaimed it excitedly (and repeatedly, completely with hands in the air) everytime he saw him and asked 'Michael?' when he wasn't in the room but it got ZERO response from my cousin.
Like, not even a wave, or a smile, let alone coming up to my son and talking to him.
It's not like he doesn't like my son - my son is extremely well behaved and quiet, even, which would make the gleeful 'Michael!' all the more flattering.
I ask because at the moment, my entire extended family here in Australia is looking after my cousin (he's from Vietnam) and we're all trying to work out which parts of his behaviour is typical 16 year old boy, typical 16 year old boy who has been uprooted from his homeland and sent to live somewhere else, typical 16 year old boy pack-a-day-smoker who has been cut cold turkey from cigarettes and something which might need him visiting some sort of professional.
I've always defended his behaviour as 'normal' but that was the first time he's done something that makes me think he's a bit odd. My mum is on the verge of making him an appointment with a psych.
I mean, he lies and steals and doesn't seem to have many friends, but he's always polite and smiley, but he's a anti social - like he won't join in games even if we ask him to and is always wandering off on his own. Like, my parents drove him down to visit me and my family for the first time, and 10 minutes here and he's gone off on a walk.
Feel free to tell me/ask me anything you like. I don't know anything about teenage boys really, nor mental health, but my cousin doesn't seem like an emo teen to me and I want to see if I can help.
My two year old has a vocabulary of only about 50 words, but he decided yesterday that 'Michael', the name of my 16 year old cousin, was going to be one of his words. He exclaimed it excitedly (and repeatedly, completely with hands in the air) everytime he saw him and asked 'Michael?' when he wasn't in the room but it got ZERO response from my cousin.
Like, not even a wave, or a smile, let alone coming up to my son and talking to him.
It's not like he doesn't like my son - my son is extremely well behaved and quiet, even, which would make the gleeful 'Michael!' all the more flattering.
I ask because at the moment, my entire extended family here in Australia is looking after my cousin (he's from Vietnam) and we're all trying to work out which parts of his behaviour is typical 16 year old boy, typical 16 year old boy who has been uprooted from his homeland and sent to live somewhere else, typical 16 year old boy pack-a-day-smoker who has been cut cold turkey from cigarettes and something which might need him visiting some sort of professional.
I've always defended his behaviour as 'normal' but that was the first time he's done something that makes me think he's a bit odd. My mum is on the verge of making him an appointment with a psych.
I mean, he lies and steals and doesn't seem to have many friends, but he's always polite and smiley, but he's a anti social - like he won't join in games even if we ask him to and is always wandering off on his own. Like, my parents drove him down to visit me and my family for the first time, and 10 minutes here and he's gone off on a walk.
Feel free to tell me/ask me anything you like. I don't know anything about teenage boys really, nor mental health, but my cousin doesn't seem like an emo teen to me and I want to see if I can help.
