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My son is a loving, caring, sensitive, 8 yr old that is very artsy and has some feminin tendancies. My issue here is not about who he is but how he is perceived to be. As you can see from the discription in my first line. He's not your average stereotype boy who likes cars and playing guns. Growing up he preferred to do puzzles instead of playing with cars. Which for us never was a problem. Now, he has developped some kind of paranoya. He thinks that no one likes him. He is a little boy who is overweight, and taller then average. Oh! and I forgot to mention that his passion is dancing. We have supported him in any activity he chose to participate in but, we inforce most things with positive reinforcement, but I guess there comes a time that a mothers love is not enough. He is certain that the kids at school don't like him and don't want to play with him ever. He also mentions that sometimes he just doesn't care and wishes he wasn't alive. He said to my husband and I yesterday,"You know if we decided to move somewhere else, where we know no one that no one will like me there either." To put up a though front he will use fowl language, to make himself look tough, because he is not the type to physically defend himself. He has been mentally bullied and gets teased all the time, for all the above mentionned. We love our son very much and we don't know what to do. We have arranged for him to seek help and everytime he does, he goes on a high gor a while but then forgets what he has to apply. If anyone has anything to share, and relate, it would be great to hear it. I'm worried that my son's will not live to see twenty, because of his depression.