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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 503056" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>When a kid has been allowed to run around in dangerous places where he needs guns to keep safe I wonder what has happened to him? What traumas may have occured while not under the watchful eye of an adult. He seems to proceed without fear for his own safety-he has no fear. Is he avoiding sleep and restful activities because sleep brings nighmares? He is not use to structure and has been given freedoms he is not old enough to handle. He may be smart, but he is a teen with an under developed brain (as all teens have). They don't have the fear that adults do. Add trauma and they may not care about danger.As much time as he has spent out in the adult world it will be hard to "tame" him or pull him in. If he has work, can he be emancipated? I think he needs to follow rules. To live in the US,and most societies, you have to learn to do this. It doesn't sound like he has done this at all. If he doesn't end up in legal trouble here, avoided it in the Sudan, how will he ever be successful? There are behavioral RTCs. Yes, sometimes they work when a kid is forced in and sometimes they don't. You don't have time on your side. Do you have a counselor? Has he ever talked about bad things happeneing to him or witnessing bad things?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 503056, member: 11001"] When a kid has been allowed to run around in dangerous places where he needs guns to keep safe I wonder what has happened to him? What traumas may have occured while not under the watchful eye of an adult. He seems to proceed without fear for his own safety-he has no fear. Is he avoiding sleep and restful activities because sleep brings nighmares? He is not use to structure and has been given freedoms he is not old enough to handle. He may be smart, but he is a teen with an under developed brain (as all teens have). They don't have the fear that adults do. Add trauma and they may not care about danger.As much time as he has spent out in the adult world it will be hard to "tame" him or pull him in. If he has work, can he be emancipated? I think he needs to follow rules. To live in the US,and most societies, you have to learn to do this. It doesn't sound like he has done this at all. If he doesn't end up in legal trouble here, avoided it in the Sudan, how will he ever be successful? There are behavioral RTCs. Yes, sometimes they work when a kid is forced in and sometimes they don't. You don't have time on your side. Do you have a counselor? Has he ever talked about bad things happeneing to him or witnessing bad things? [/QUOTE]
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