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Pinterest has an assortment of checklists: Kids Morning ChecklistAnd on Wikia, Child Behavior Check List there is this entry:The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is a behavior assessment measure which was designed to address the problem of defining child behavior problems empirically. It is based on a careful review of the literature and carefully conducted empirical studies. It is designed to assess in a standardized format the behavioral problems and social competencies of children ,aged between 4-18, as reported by parents.But -- I never as a parent used a checklist which I wrote. If they wanted to earn something, they wrote their own checklists and consulted with me and their other parent about what to put on it.Can you sit down as a family and write one for yourselves, all together? It would be fun to take a whiteboard and make one together. There is much more of a buy-in and a greater likelihood of success when kids 'make' the rules they will 'follow.'

Athena Walker's answer to Is it normal for a teenage girl to pretend to be a psychopath? Why or why not?Normal? I have no idea. However, the behavior traits might well convince a teenage girl that she is one. This goes into why teenagers are never diagnosed with ASPD. It is impossible. I will add the explanation as to why, then continue on my train of thought.Athena Walker's answer to What is a teenage psychopath like?Nothing. Absolutely nothing, because teenagers cannot be psychopaths. There is a great reason for this as well.Empathy development takes time. It is not something you come strolling into the world with. Part of empathy is taught, part of it however is in the brain’s formation. Hardwired empathy.In the young adult stages you are going through a massive growth of neurons. An explosion of them really. Far more than when you were a young child. This massive explosion of neurons is followed quickly by rapid pruning. This sort of process heightens many aspects of aggressive behavior and generally floods the brain with various and overwhelming experiences. It is why young people are more driven by high risk behavior, and why they are less inclined to learn from past actions.There is a reason the psychopathy is not diagnosed in someone at the earliest of eighteen, and that is in extreme cases, and the idea point to wait for is twenty five. Until that time there can be other diagnosis like conduct disorder, but that does not indicate that person will turn out to be psychopathic.The reason to not diagnose until a later age is due to brain development. Before you reach twenty five your brain is still growing and changing. The last aspect to develop is the part of the brain that deals with consequences of your actions. Without that in place people can behave in very impulsive ways. That as well as behavior laced with several aspects of narcissism as that is just part of being young. These traits can easily be mistaken for psychopathy.Psychopathy cannot be observed in a young person while they are a young. Anything that might look like psychopathy could be caused by a dozen or more different things, including the person being entirely normal and adjusting to things within their own time.You can observe traits that to someone looks just like psychopathy and the suspected person is as neurotypical as anyone else. They have done studies with children that very much appeared psychopathic and while they reevaluate them as time moves on and they grow up, less than a third of them end up with any diagnosis of any kind.Children and teenagers can not be psychopathic. They will not be even considered as such until they reach an age where the majority of maturity has been reached, as the brain’s development, it speed, it connections, can mimic psychopathic presentation until there is a completion of the growth involved with adulthood.You can evaluate a psychopath’s childhood looking back on it, you cannot assess a psychopath by their childhood looking forward. It is impossible.So, that being the case, that the behaviors of a person in this stage of development looking much like psychopathy, it is not a difficult thing for a teenager to do to arrive on a checklist online and see that they reflect their behavior.Of course they do. It doesn’t make them pretending, it makes them mistaken. At that age understanding brain development in a psychopathic mind is not often high on the priority list. They have no idea that psychopathy is not diagnosed until twenty-five, or rather that ASPD isn’t, and they would have no idea why that would be the case.They see a list of traits that they relate to. They are also in a stage where they are trying to understand who they are. It is also not a far reach to use it as a crutch. They do bad things as a teenager and everyone comes down on them for it. Their empathy is less than developed at this stage, they don’t feel guilty. Instead the see psychopathy traits as a, see, it’s not my fault. Also, it removes the concern for, why don’t I feel guilty for this? They don’t because that part of the brain isn’t done yet, but they don’ know this, and a lack of empathy seems like it means something.So, they can come to the conclusion that they are. It might even go further that they tell as story that they were diagnosed. They weren’t, and it is a story. No clinician in their right mind is even handing out that diagnosis. There would be no repayment from insurance as it does not comply with the DSM-V diagnostic criteria, i.e. the bible of whether or not they are going to pay you. It’s a different diagnosis until the earliest of eighteen, and that’s when you are already serving time for a very nasty crime.They may not be pretending, they may really think that they are. They may concoct a story to bolster those claims so they are heard. It by no means makes them right, just a normal teenager looking for their place in the world.

Many times parents or caregivers reject the idea of labeling children early. Instead of having testing done early they provide modifications for their child. Some of those modifications include attendance in private schools, hiring social tutors, private specialists such at special ed teachers, speech pathologist, occupational therapy and physical therapists. Quirky behavior and odd sensory tics may become more noticeable as adolescent social interaction or lack thereof is more prevalent. Teachers usually are the first line of contact if they see worrisome behavior. I have evaluated many of these students.I received referrals for students from middle and high schools and once the developmental profile was completed it was obvious that the child had early developmental signs of autism. The child had difficulty socially, communicating, fixed or rigid behavior and odd sensory/ motor tics or obsession with objects, like trains or elevators etc.Yes older folks can be diagnosed as autistic but unless you had a neurological accident later in life you could not “develop “ autism out of the blue. If interested in an evaluation you could could consult with a psychologist. You can find autism checklists online if you haven’t already done one!People who have neurological accidents could demonstrate some similar traits but these disorders are medical would not under the umbrella of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Good luck!