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Casus

A child with autism does not tell his father that the neighbor was aggressive. He thinks: “If I say that, I won’t be allowed to play at the neighbor’s house anymore.” The child manipulates information to protect an immediate need: maintaining calm and keeping access to the neighbor’s home (transactional behavior).

In the long term, however, this creates other problems:

the father may trust the child less, and an incident at the neighbor’s could have been prevented if the truth had been told.