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By nothowscienceworks - 13/11/2015 07:06 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I had the mother of a five year old come in for parent teacher conferences. When I told her that her son was very smart, but he often made up fantastical stories about his home life, she burst into tears. She then ran out of my office crying, "I knew it! I knew he was a sociopath!" FML

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By Anonymous - 23/11/2020 17:02

Today, I had to give my four year-old daughter some tough love, which I hate doing. When she ran away crying, my son, her twin brother, looked at me and said, "You should be ashamed of yourself." FML

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By kindgartin - 23/04/2011 09:26 - Canada

Today, I was listening to my son's teacher gossip about students whilst in the grocery store. I was thrilled when she described my son as "A model student". However, she then went on to say, "Which is surprising considering that his parents are trailer trash." FML

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By Anonymous - 30/10/2010 05:07 - New Zealand

Today, my daughter came up to me crying. When I asked her what was wrong, she told me that she had a fight with her imaginary boyfriend. She's 16. I raised this child. FML

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By notyouagain - 03/10/2010 07:40 - Australia

Today, I went over to my friend's house. Her 5 year old son answered the door and when he saw me said, 'oh great, it's YOU' and slammed the door in my face. FML

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By PrettySureItsReal - 09/04/2015 19:38 - United States - Saint Peters

Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML

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WinterChild 20

Friday 13 November 2015 17:45

Because no child ever made up a story or has an imagination without having a mental disorder...

Wizardo 33

Friday 13 November 2015 17:45

Guess he inherited the smarts from his dad.

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freakinduck 6

Friday 13 November 2015 20:54

Where did she go after leaving the office...?

luvlu444 24

Friday 13 November 2015 21:49

its called imagination, something all 5 year olds have, and will unfortunately grow out of

hardcorefan16 22

Friday 13 November 2015 22:23

Or maybe she's the sociopath.

DoomedGemini 37

Friday 13 November 2015 22:38

I'm kinda worried for the kid.. Is he going to be alright in her care if she's throwing out a diagnosis like that? I am a huge advocate for trying to find mental illnesses early, but a 5 year old a sociopath for having an imagination? Unless he's intentionally harming animals or people for fun(not just because he doesn't know any better) I don't see why she'd come up with that.

worldclassrager 39

Friday 13 November 2015 23:12

Oh come on...it's a good thing...

kalbrek009 20

Saturday 14 November 2015 0:27

What exactly are these stories & how can you tell that they're all made up? Sounds like the mother (possibly) may be a sociopath & fears that she made a mini of herself...or, she spends too much time on the Internet googling mental disorders.

Brightbulb 39

Saturday 14 November 2015 1:09

maybe he makes the stories because he is 5? or he could be a child wizard and the mom is just trying to thriw you off the scent... but then again he is 5 and the mom had already condemned him as a sociopath.

BstMode 14

Saturday 14 November 2015 1:20

Stewie!

Kamikazek 6

Saturday 14 November 2015 3:19

When I was in high school I told my mom I was comfortable with my acne (which was rather minor and often unnoticeable if I did my hair right) and she seriously freaked out and said that's something only a sociopath would say and went on and on about how "that's really scary". She does stuff like that a lot in fact, making senseless diagnoses and then freaking out about them. It's not a fun thing to grow up around, I pity the kid in this FML. Also I worked at a day care with kids around this age for a while, basically all of them make stuff up. Hell almost everyone I knows remembers several kids who's "dad worked at Nintendo" or something similar from when they were young. If this was a reliable sign of sociopathy we'd have sociopaths coming out of our ears.