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Jeremy Wickins's avatar

I have twins - a girl and a boy - less than 7 years old. My son is probably "on the spectrum". Both children play with and wear whatever is at hand, or nothing at all. In role-playing games, they tend to take either female or male roles as it suits them. Both can gentle or rough. The point of this? None of the behaviour described by this woman is unusual - her son has sisters, so of course he's going to play with toys marketed at girls. Of course he's going to be attracted to "girl's" colours. There is nothing abnormal about his behaviour at all. The mother seems to have a problem with boys.

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Mary R. Frank's avatar

This sounds like a variation of Munchausen by Proxy.

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