*high-five*
Kids do kid-things and we have to roll with it as parents.
Heck, my own mother, while describing my toddler behaviors in the early '80s to people who hadn't met me was even asked "are you sure you have a little girl?" - note, I was active, messy, and rough-and-tumble as a little kid and kind of expect little kids to ... get messy, run around & climb things, and be a little destructive because they're little kids and that's how little kids experience the world. (OK, maybe without the destructive bit because, for a lot of kids, that feels like a limits-and-boundaries issue vs an inherent trait.)
PS - cataloguing behaviors as "girl" or "boy" is harmful to both NT kids and neurodiverse ones, but especially insidious for women and girls because so many of the older criteria for things like ADHD and autism/autism spectrum were specifically observed in boys ... which meant girls slipped through the cracks when they exhibited symptoms of, say, ADHD-Inattentive type (this is the "dreamy" and distracted type) rather than ADHD-Combined type (most commonly associated with boys, but ... DD has Combined, and, at age 6, it was quite "severe"; still kind of is)
Last edited by lizzywednesday; 09-10-2021 at 10:50 AM.
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
"Make mistakes! Get messy!" - Miss Frizzle