“OK kids there are monsters that you can’t hear bothering me. The doctor doesn’t know why.” Please come up with something better than that. Or tell me not to say anything until they are grown.
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Kids talk. I’d consider who else this might get around to first. Teachers, parents.
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I have nieces. The eldest is 10. Nobody including me has told them yet !
This book might help
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I have nieces and a nephew. I think they already know. No secrets in my family .
. They all tell each other everything.
Thank you for your help.
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Umm… I’d say wait till they’re older.
My husband told his 9 year old I have SZ, and I am not amused
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Thank you for that consideration.
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My sister just tells my nephew that I’m “a free spirit” 
I have no idea how much my 41 year old nephew knows about my history. Never talked to him about it, even when we both lived in the same house with my sister for a year or two. I don’t know how much my sisters tell him.
I kind of let my other nephew know about ten years ago. He’s 31 now and I think I said a few things over the years but we never talk about it either. When I cracked in 2015 and ended up in a board & care after living independently for 20 years, he came with my sister to visit me. He was born in 1990, the year of my last hospitalization. (except for this last one in 2015 for a day) and he lived with me and my other nephew at my sisters house too for three years. All he knew was me always working and living in regular society and going places with them. But yeah, I kind of wonder what he thought about me after seeing my fellow residents and seeing my tiny, dim little room I shared in the board & care home.
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i’ve never discussed it with them. no reason to. except for that they wouldn’t stress me out so much by wanting to play some stupid game. my family expects me to be normal, work provide for myself, date, whatever. im not so ambitious myself.
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I would ask someone qualified first, unless my symptoms showed I was ill to them first.
My biggest error was disclosing my illness to anyone - I should have kept it a secret. Now it’s out there, that’s it - there is nothing I can do about it.
my nieces asked their mums why i live with my parents… i think they told them that i am sick… i’m not sure how much they told them though…
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