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15-year old son crashing and burning - unlurking
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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 395382" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>Hello and welcome!</p><p> </p><p>A lot of what you write sounds so familiar...</p><p> </p><p>And isn't it interesting that we consider ourselves "lucky" that our difficult child is only this or that? It's amazing what one can get used to as "normal"!</p><p> </p><p>You wrote that your difficult child does not feel he is a part of your family. This may not be due to race or adoption or anything - it may be due to your child's grandiose thinking. My darling daughter claims that I must not be her "real" Mom and she is pretty sure there is a good possibility that we are not related at all, and that's why she doesn't "fit in" with the rest of the family. And then she will go on to speculate about how great her "real" Mom might be.</p><p> </p><p>To which I, as the bio Mom, have the option of saying "Yes, perhaps you were switched at birth. Let's go find my REAL baby - I'll bet she's just gorgeous!" </p><p> </p><p>Like your son, she will spend days and days with other families because she feels she "fits in" there...</p><p> </p><p>but it's all a fantasy. She thinks she is the next big singing star....and is just waiting to be "discovered". But she doesn't want to deal with the reality of singing lessons or learning to read music or anything.</p><p> </p><p>So school is completely unimportant because she's got it all figured out...</p><p> </p><p>So I hear ya! I have no answers, but I hear ya!</p><p> </p><p>Welcome to our group...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 395382, member: 6546"] Hello and welcome! A lot of what you write sounds so familiar... And isn't it interesting that we consider ourselves "lucky" that our difficult child is only this or that? It's amazing what one can get used to as "normal"! You wrote that your difficult child does not feel he is a part of your family. This may not be due to race or adoption or anything - it may be due to your child's grandiose thinking. My darling daughter claims that I must not be her "real" Mom and she is pretty sure there is a good possibility that we are not related at all, and that's why she doesn't "fit in" with the rest of the family. And then she will go on to speculate about how great her "real" Mom might be. To which I, as the bio Mom, have the option of saying "Yes, perhaps you were switched at birth. Let's go find my REAL baby - I'll bet she's just gorgeous!" Like your son, she will spend days and days with other families because she feels she "fits in" there... but it's all a fantasy. She thinks she is the next big singing star....and is just waiting to be "discovered". But she doesn't want to deal with the reality of singing lessons or learning to read music or anything. So school is completely unimportant because she's got it all figured out... So I hear ya! I have no answers, but I hear ya! Welcome to our group... [/QUOTE]
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