Originally Posted by AmeliaG

If you are interested in accuracy, I believe the worst school killing in America was in the 1920's.

The woman who wrote that article is a horror show. She syndicated that article to high traffic sites all over the internet, along with a PHOTO OF HER SON sent to most. Changing his name to Michael, when her name is on the byline, and his photo is alongside the article is an invasion of her child's privacy.

Her 13-year-old is melodramatic and she makes an emergency room visit out of it and she wonders why he is getting worse. That woman is right. She does need help. Labeling theory, anyone?

When a parent overreacts to that kind of thing, they make it real and they make it worse. She took him out of a gifted program and put him in an unpleasant school. She responded to whining about video games by taking him to an adult institution (when she could easily have dropped him off at a behavioral school he was already enrolled in) where they had already prescribed him inappropriate (for a child) adult medication.

He acts out once -- does not actually stab anyone -- and she trains his siblings to be frightened of him and makes a huge show of gathering up and carrying all the sharp things in the house around with her. Children model on their parents and, gee, I wonder where he learned to be overly dramatic.

Then, to demonstrate that, yes, she definitely has a touch of Munchausen's, she writes an article for the Huffington Post and Gawker and anyone else who wants a few views more than they respect a child's privacy, so the whole world can give her sympathy for how difficult her child is.