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How a controversial medical explanation for difficult kids blew up online

By Liam Mannix

When Zoe was little, she wanted to go to the park.

The problem for the child and her mother, Anne Rhodes, was that Zoe also did not want to go to the park. She’d scream and howl as her mother popped the car door. It’s a scene that would repeat when mother and daughter went for ice cream, to playgroup, to childcare. Zoe is now 15, but it’s an ongoing issue.

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