Micheal is a nine year old boy whose problems began showing themselves at the age of three. His mother, Anne, said that after his brother, Allan, was born he was just acting like a brat. All the doctors said that sibling rivalry was to blame. However, Anne remembers that his behaviors weren't those of normal children; they were really odd. Anything would set him off and his parents were almost afraid of him. He would punch holes in the doors and kick the walls until all of a sudden he snapped out of his tantrum... but it was more than that.
When Micheal turned five, he had developed the ability to switch instantly from full blown anger to a state of somberness. Anne says she can recall a specific arguement that hit her as extremely unsettling. They were working on a homework assignment and he was crying about it. She tried to calmly speak with him. "I said: 'Micheal, remember the brainstorming we did yesterday? All you have to do is take your thoughts from that and turn them into sentences, and you're done!' He's still screaming bloody murder, so I say: 'Micheal, I thought we brainstormed so we could avoid all this drama today.' He stopped dead, in the middle of screaming, turned to me in this flat, adult tone and said, 'Well, you didn't think that through very clearly then, did you?'"
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