Have you ever seen a child act so unruly and hostile that you just stared in disbelief? Maybe you blamed the parents for a lack of discipline. Or perhaps you even felt sorry for them. There might be something else at play in situations like this. It’s called Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and, as the name suggests, it’s characterized by excessive defiance and disobedient behavior towards adults and authority figures.
One teen has shed some light on ODD and the chaos that comes with it. The 17-year-old revealed that her young cousin has the disorder and that his parents’ lives are a living hell. The teen refuses to babysit the boy because she fears something bad will happen. But she’s now being accused of discriminating against him.
