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Warning Signs
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Wearing long sleeves/long pants regardless of the season.
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Refusal to wear sleeveless or short sleeves tops, shorts, bathing suits.
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Refusal to go swimming.
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Avoiding exposure to certain body parts or demanding excessive privacy.
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Wearing wrist warmers or wrist bands to cover the wrist.
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Wearing gloves that have fingers cut off, or wearing socks on hand with holes for fingers, thus covering the entire hand, wrist, and forearm


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Wearing inches of bracelets that cover wrists and refusal to remove them.
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Putting "thumb-holes" in sweatshirts, so hands and arms remain covered.
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Carrying around or hiding knives, scissors, razors, box cutters, shards of glass, safety pins, tacks, or needles in the bedroom, backpack, clothing, or shoes.
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Frequent accidents.
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Cuts that are parallel in a shape.
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Finding blood on towels, bedsheets, and used tissues in trash cans.
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Wearing a razor blade around the neck like a necklace.
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Frequent bruises, scratches, cuts, burns, broken bones, or bandages followed by flimsy excuses like: "A cat scratched me," "I was climbing a fence," "I was making jello," or "I fell off a mountain."