the article DID SAY that the kid identified the figure on the cross as HIMSELF, and not Christ....
Well, that could make it more interesting... he probably feels he has to give up a lot of things to get by, maybe his family is having a financial set back and he's been told very often that he has to do without, he has to sacrifice... it's clear this sacrificial component is troubling him, but there's no way to know if this is a clinical issue or that the sacrifices of Jesus is a frequently mentioned item in the home, this could easily be verified with a chat with the kid and his parents... surely, if he identifies himself as Jesus, then whatever it may be is making him feel more martyred by his sacrifices than most other kids... in other words, it makes better sense and is clinically more intelligent to move along that continuum from normalcy to pathology than to jump immediately to pathology, this is inappropriate... the school obviously made a big issue about the drawing before knowing what they had in front of them... that comes from inexperience and stupidity, i.e., speaking and jumping to conclusions without knowing the actual facts... remember when that idiot obumble said "the police acted stupidly," when it was his own comment that was spoken stupidly...
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