Just thought of an example...dcg would start crying at pick up so parents would scramble trying to figure out what's wrong, asking her loads of questions " are you hungry, are you tired, are you hot etc etc etc" and dcg would give the blank stare and parents would keep going asking her questions instead of getting dcg to TELL them what was wrong. Honestly I think she did it a) for attention, b) because she was never taught how to express herself properly and c) because she kinda enjoyed watching her parents scramble and felt that so long as she didn't reveal what was wrong it meant she was in CONTROL. Which is why I came to no longer tolerate it after a while because I could see right though this little game she played. I know this is making it sound like she was a bad kid lol she really truly was not but was not taught proper communication and was conditioned to just not give adults an answer and just waiting for them to figure it out themselves all while getting loads of attention and feeling in control.