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<blockquote data-quote="AHF" data-source="post: 410962" data-attributes="member: 11180"><p>I have found this to be a problem, not so much with friends as with family. My sister always wants to know what's up with difficult child, and she thinks she's being supportive when she says things like "Why doesn't the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) train him to get a job?" or scoffs at the notion of personality disorder. It's estranged us, in the end, because it feels as if she's telling me to take him out in the back yard and shoot him. So we can't talk about it, and that's fine with casual friends, but it doesn't feel fine with family. Plus my partner's kids are all fabulous, so when we're with his family everyone pretends as if I have no kids at all; it feels as though they've died. Takes a real toll.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AHF, post: 410962, member: 11180"] I have found this to be a problem, not so much with friends as with family. My sister always wants to know what's up with difficult child, and she thinks she's being supportive when she says things like "Why doesn't the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) train him to get a job?" or scoffs at the notion of personality disorder. It's estranged us, in the end, because it feels as if she's telling me to take him out in the back yard and shoot him. So we can't talk about it, and that's fine with casual friends, but it doesn't feel fine with family. Plus my partner's kids are all fabulous, so when we're with his family everyone pretends as if I have no kids at all; it feels as though they've died. Takes a real toll. [/QUOTE]
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