Emotionally disturbed kids are so complex. They will lie and manipulate you interspersed with being vulnerable. It takes a lot of reflection, awareness, and compassion to work with them. Many people burn out fast and then we're left with crummy people like this. ED students at my work was intimate with a boy didn't use a condom like they agreed andbwho then ditched her quick. She was assaulted and devestated. Her main teacher said she was playing us but it was absolutely not the case. It made me so angry to see her brushed off like that.