Really not sure about this. My dd is quite reserved, only recently started going out and about with friends, turned a bit goth.
I saw her left arm this week, it had a series of neat inch long scratches, not deep but definitely deliberate.
I asked her what it was, and she said she'd done it with scissors, because she was fed up.
She said she hadn't done it anywhere else.
I said it was a risky thing to do, they could get infected and if she was fed up she should come and talk to me.
She's quite self contained, but seems to be happy most of the time. She talks to me about her day, and tells me things that annoy her.
I'm a bit of a loss really. Could it be experimentation?
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14 yo dd with deliberately scratched arms, cutting?
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