EVEN YOUNG CHILDREN KNOW...
...that they have reputations; and they are aware of how others see them.  What's the Moebius Syndrome tie-in?  Well, when I saw this story it made me think this:  that you parents of young children with Moebius should be aware that your child then, even at a young age, will know he or she is different and may know that other children see him or her as different.  They may not talk about it.  You never know when that will happen.  But likely, they will know (I think down deep I knew this, at a pretty young age, and that's why from a very young age I became shy and afraid of change).  Read on:
"Even 5-year-olds know to protect their reps. Children are more generous when they know their actions will be seen, according to a new study.

The findings, published Oct. 31 in the journal PLoS One, suggest that even kindergarteners have learned to play the social game and strategize ways to burnish their reputation. 

"Much like the patterns of charity we see in adults, donation tendencies in children appear to be driven by the amount of information available to others about their actions — for both adults and children, the more others know about their actions, the more likely they are to act generously," said study co-author and Yale University researcher Kristin Lyn Leimgruber in a statement.

Leimgruber's team gave 5-year-olds stickers and told them they could share one to four of them with another child of the same age. Some of the children could see their sharing partner, while others were hidden from view.

The team found that the children were stingier when the other youngster was hidden from them. The kids also hoarded more loot when they had to give stickers in an opaque box rather than a transparent one that showed what they were giving.

Overall, the kindergarteners were pretty selfish : Only those children who saw their partners and gave their stickers in a clear box consistently donated the maximum of four stickers.

Interestingly, past studies showed children were more generous than the current study.

"Previous studies that observe high levels of generosity may have inadvertently included the same audience and transparency cues," that motivate kids to share, the researchers wrote in the journal article."

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents.  What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."--Sir Winston Churchill.