My kid’s whole body went rigid over a broken crayon last week, like it was the end of everything, and what surprised me was how quickly he named the exact feeling as “too much” instead of just yelling.
Halfway through that thread about bigger kids and emotions it clicked back to this same pattern at home, where the little stuff hits harder than I’d expect. Not sure if my read on it being tied to him holding stuff in all day at school is even right.
