Is it normal for my nephew to play god?

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Sometimes, my nephew quotes scripture while he melts the heads off of toy soldiers for not conquering villages in his name. He destroys Teddy Grams in like fashion, often demanding sacrifices lest he eat their 'first-born sons' and whenever he plays The Sims, he deprives them of basic amenities and enjoys setting the children on fire as a 'sacrifice'. He also heats up spoons over a fire and burns Barbie dolls with them, sometimes tying them naked to screamers because they have committed some 'crime' or other.

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    I wonder how amused his parents will be when he is hacking them to death in their bed, when he's about 12?

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  • la_uva_mojada
    9 years ago

    where is he getting these morbid thoughts? these ideas have to come from somewhere

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    • toxic-mecha
      9 years ago

      As a child, I was actually pretty morbid, 'torturing' dolls and whatnot...my parents were really strict about everything over a G-rating. The only time I saw blood was when I scraped a knee, but otherwise, nowhere else. And yet I did many things like that. Can't it just occur without reason like that?

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    • anti-hero
      9 years ago

      Because people can't come up with their own ideas?

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      • la_uva_mojada
        9 years ago

        yes people can come up with their own ideas, of course. However, it's not normal for a kid this small to come up with such morbid things, unless he's the anti-christ.

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        • anti-hero
          9 years ago

          You don't know much about boys.

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          • la_uva_mojada
            9 years ago

            well maybe in your world this is a norm.

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          Maybe his parents are anti-christ...most religious zealots want to and teach to kill everything in God's name...because in their little heads they are right and god is on their side even when they are wrong...what I am getting at is that this kid has picked up the bad attitude habit of one of his parents or immediate parental figures in his life. Only way for him to make sense of it is to escape in his fantasy world....this is bad parenting....when a parent cannot see himself in the mirror nor how his acts influence his surroundings especially the kid who lives to please the parent...wanting to become just like them...only to their own detriment..thinking his parent is wonderful when infact they are just very twisted human beings wanting to manipulate the poor kid..dragging theminto their insanity.

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          • la_uva_mojada
            9 years ago

            Yep, u r right. Its too bad that we r usually only taught (brainwashed) 1 religion, since childhood. It would b better if we were objectively taught all religions/belief systems & let us choose @ our own pace.

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  • AppleMind
    9 years ago

    Perhaps you should give him some other novel to read. Perhaps a well written one with a benevolent protagonist.

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    • Stifler
      9 years ago

      Give him the king james bible.

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      • noid
        9 years ago

        How would that help? This must be sarcasm.

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        • Stifler
          9 years ago

          Clearly.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        That is only if he can read...we don't know how old he is. Anyhow psychopaths twist the word according to their will in anyway. So this answer won't be helpful if it is the case. Lmfao

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  • Goodvibrations
    9 years ago

    Boys are weird... I don't think you should send him to the child psychiatrist just yet though; this sadism has only been practised on toys, it's living things falling prey to this "omnipotent god" that should cause you to worry. While I think this extreme behaviour isn't normal, I don't quite think he's murderer material yet like people on here are making him out to be...

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    • Avant-Garde
      9 years ago

      On a side note, there are experts on this subject that say that children/teenagers who are future serial killers will often make animals as their first actual victims before moving onto humans.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        What if his parents treated him like an animal?

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        • Avant-Garde
          9 years ago

          It's an possibility.

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  • Pika-girl
    9 years ago

    Let him play, he must have a reason to do it. Plus, he's still young, but just seek some help and look for ways to... lighten the violence?

    BTW... He would make a dangerous president...

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  • anti-hero
    9 years ago

    Sure.... "your nephew".

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  • RoseIsabella
    9 years ago

    How old is this tiny tyrant and future serial killer?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      He's about 7. He wants to be President when he grows up.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        All presidents are psychopathic sociopaths....lmfao

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      • RoseIsabella
        9 years ago

        He'll probably grow up to be more of a John Hinckley Jr. type than a Ronald Reagan. They should probably send him to see a child psychiatrist for that sick little mind of his.

        That boy ain't right in tha head!

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        • [Old Memory]
          9 years ago

          Sounds like stuff I did as a kid and I turned out just fine.

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          • [Old Memory]
            9 years ago

            Also there's nothing "serial killer" about this. Unlike hurting animals or bullying this isn't actually hurting people. It's harmless fun.

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            • dragonfruit33
              9 years ago

              Escaping into his fantasy world is his way to escape from his psycopathic parents...so cutting of the dolls' heads...is how he relieves his underlying frustration...as long as it keeps to plastic dogs and toys....he needs to have a emotionally mature parent figure in his life...to tell him his parents are sick and that he can still turn out better than they are.

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          You cannot say that...maybe his parents are the ones that should be locked up making him have these evil thoughts...he must be abused...or acting out what he sees his father's attitude is to the world. Sending him to a shrink for his father's sin is goingto scar the kid for life....and will make him hate people even more....he needs someone who understands how easy it is to pick up the psychopathic environment he lives in...in order to be like or please his dad or similar psychotic mother.

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago

    Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! YIKES!

    I think that I'd rather interview Hitler.

    What do his parents think of all this or are they just turning the typical I'm-in-denial blind eye?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      His parents find it all quite humorous. I've asked them about the possible consequences of letting this behavior go on unchecked, but they insist that he will 'grow out of it'.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        Yeah because they don't want to get him evaluated...because things would turn up about themselves they are not ready to deal with.

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      • Avant-Garde
        9 years ago

        That's really concerning. Does anyone else know about his behaviors or, does he only do this at home? It seems to me that if he did this in school, that concern should have reached the right parties.

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      People in glass houses cannot throw stones...once they incriminate the child...all fingers point to the parent as source of this type of behaviour.

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  • Stifler
    9 years ago

    Everybody kills their sims at one point or another, No biggy. Tell the runt to punish the toaster with a knife.

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    • anti-hero
      9 years ago

      Is that what happened to you?

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      • Stifler
        9 years ago

        Yes, Many a time.

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        • anti-hero
          9 years ago

          Are you still pretending to be Asian? Or have you dropped that persona?

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          • Stifler
            9 years ago

            Indeed, I'm now a German with nine children and my name is Stan Lee.

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  • pleasedtomeetyou
    9 years ago

    I hope this is a troll post, I hope this is a troll post.

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  • xLupedOutx
    9 years ago

    Holy... What video games has he been allowed to play? Whatever age he is, they are clearly having a negative effect on him.

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      He does not have to play videogames when his dad is his psychopathic rolemodel. I hink the author needs to open her mind..why is it the kid that must always havethe problem? Or is the OP a skilled scapegoater in life...who focus on other people's problems to avoid his/her own?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      He's played The Sims, of course, though I can't say for sure what other games he's played (I think Grand Theft Auto might be one). He watches horror movies and he likes to read the Old Testament a lot.

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      • noid
        9 years ago

        Normal if he reads the Old Testament verbatim with no parental guidance.

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      • Riddler
        9 years ago

        I don't know how to respond to this. This stuff does happen in the bible and kids often imitate authority figures at that age. So this seems like a normal reaction given that information. I just am not sure if this would later translate into something more sinister in the future. Try telling him this "We are simply servants of the lord and we have to try to make the world better so god does not have to punish us".

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          I feel sorry for this kid...when his parents aren't there for him emotionally he goes to the bible only to find more blood and gore...he will grow up and realize how stupid this was in time...it is normal everyone goes through this...trying to cope with pain in the most absurd ways....and if we mature we find better ways to cope with it...by dealing with it in a healthy way. It is the kid's path to walk and not the family members' though.

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  • dragonfruit33
    9 years ago

    It is normal for a kid to act out living in an abusive environment...abuse comes in many forms - even if there is no physical abuse...depriving the kid of emotional support is a kind of psychological rape.

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago

    I had a friend, when I was a child, who was shunned by our peers as well as people who weren't in our peer group, for a variety of reasons. As we got older, I found his behavior to be concerning. He once told me that his cats knew not to mess with him because, they knew that he would hurt them. At the time, I didn't know that this was a sign of a potential serial killer. Despite this lack of information, I was deeply unsettled by what he had said. He also displayed pedophiliac and sexually abusive tendencies towards males who were around our age and sometimes even younger (He did this in broad daylight and in front of teachers on two or three occasions!).

    I don't know what was wrong with him. I knew that he was seeing a psychiatrist/therapist but, if I am remembering correctly, I think he told me that he would lie to this person… I stopped being his friend many years back. I don't know how his life has fated. I just hope that he can get/got the proper treatment that he clearly needed. O_O

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      Also taking out his repressed problems on small animals is a re-enactment of how helpless he felt...as a small child - seeing himself as the puppy or kitten that must continue to be abused as a worthless nothing...it is a way to continue to punish himself and wanting to get closer to the pedo creep...still thinking the affections that the pedo showed him was real love...or wanting to believe it was real...as a way to cope with the guilt. It is similar to a stockholm syndrome...where the one that was kidnapped share an illusory bond with the kidnapper.

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      He could have been sexually abused himself and still seek the favour of the abuser - who really rejected him from the start by violating him - through acting like the abuser.

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      • Avant-Garde
        9 years ago

        I don't know the full story, but he had a much older male friend who helped him with his video games. I really don't know where else he would have been getting these behaviors from. I doubt it was his family, I never got a vibe from them.

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  • EccentricWeird
    9 years ago

    I smell an unfunny troll post.

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  • Zabriskie
    9 years ago

    Well, I'd start with not letting him read the bible, that's the source of his behaviour. After that ask him wtf is wrong with him and you might get a solid answer. If he tells you that he's God than slap him across the head and ask him again.

    Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm just trying to help in my personal way of view.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      Actually, none of us are religious, least of all his parents. His parents consider his behavior to almost be a sort of psychological profile of the god of the Old Testament. They also excuse his behavior with this sort of "Well, you know, when I was a kid I got electrocuted swinging around on an extension cable in a Batman costume and his grandfather fractured his ribs pretending to be Spiderman," deal.

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      • Avant-Garde
        9 years ago

        I'm sorry, but his parent's logic really doesn't make any sense. They seem like they are in denial.

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          Denial of their own flaws or that of their kid's?

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          • Avant-Garde
            9 years ago

            Denial that their child has disturbing behavior. If they won't get him help, then they aren't doing a good job at parenting.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        *facepalm* can you guys not see the little guy is looking for some emotional support in the bible where he gets none at home? What? swinging him upside down and inducing electric shock and hitting him in the ribs? Obvious child abuse...and making fun of it...because they probably went through it too and it is some sick right of passage into adulthood for them...and therefore no big deal if they do it to their own kids too. Sick mfs...

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      • Zabriskie
        9 years ago

        Maybe it just runs though his side of the family.

        -Good luck

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          Abuse you mean?

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    Get him to team sports. He is way too antisocial.

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      He is afraid of humans because the prime human figures in his life already disappointed him soooo bad...he just lost all hope in humanity because of it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      He used to play hockey, but was kicked off the team because he kept high-sticking to hit other players and attempted to kick the other players with his skates.

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      • dragonfruit33
        9 years ago

        Does his dad beat him or verbally beat him with verbal abuse? The parents need to go see a shrink before they damage him some more.

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      • green_boogers
        9 years ago

        That's too bad. You're in damage control mode. Get him into talk with a shrink. Make sure the therapist knows why you think he is a high risk kid, include any information on bed wetting.

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        • dragonfruit33
          9 years ago

          No he needs to go to a boarding school away from his parents so that he can breathe some fresh air and maybe grow into a better person away from his toxic home environment that makes him act out in the way he does. The fact that the OP is oblivious to any fault on the part of his parents is ridiculous and the true danger in this tale....it would only make matters worse...that instead of being a supportive uncle or aunt....to build the kid up...s/he will only aid in breaking him down by taking the two part devil's side...

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  • VirgilManly
    9 years ago

    Keep him away from other children and small animals and everything will be fine.

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    • dragonfruit33
      9 years ago

      He needs to be adopted by hippies....his parents are killing his little soul.

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