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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 380437" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Very interesting observation. Could very well be the main issue.</p><p> </p><p><em>I like this: 3. Boarding school in Westchester/Yonkers that specializes in Aspergers children. He would be allowed home alternate weekends and on holidays. Not much fear here except that he would think I'd thrown in the towel.</em> </p><p></p><p>If you can afford it, go for it!</p><p>Do not think or feel that you have thrown in the towel. Tell your difficult child that this is a highly qualified place that will help him learn to function in a social setting, a school setting, and a family setting. Tell him you've made a plan to help him out. If he gets snotty and tells you that you've thrown in the towel, just repeat, calmly, that this is a plan that you and the doctors came up with to help him. You are not in any way, shape or form giving up. You are helping him.</p><p> </p><p>We have whittled away our money on our difficult child on camps and tutors and private school, and then got hit with-major, unexpected home repairs, so we are using college funds for our difficult child, even though he's 13. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Chances are slim he'll go to college anyway. We have to pay taxes on what we spent, but we couldn't have done it otherwise. Do what you have to do for today. Worry about the future later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 380437, member: 3419"] Very interesting observation. Could very well be the main issue. [I]I like this: 3. Boarding school in Westchester/Yonkers that specializes in Aspergers children. He would be allowed home alternate weekends and on holidays. Not much fear here except that he would think I'd thrown in the towel.[/I] If you can afford it, go for it! Do not think or feel that you have thrown in the towel. Tell your difficult child that this is a highly qualified place that will help him learn to function in a social setting, a school setting, and a family setting. Tell him you've made a plan to help him out. If he gets snotty and tells you that you've thrown in the towel, just repeat, calmly, that this is a plan that you and the doctors came up with to help him. You are not in any way, shape or form giving up. You are helping him. We have whittled away our money on our difficult child on camps and tutors and private school, and then got hit with-major, unexpected home repairs, so we are using college funds for our difficult child, even though he's 13. :( Chances are slim he'll go to college anyway. We have to pay taxes on what we spent, but we couldn't have done it otherwise. Do what you have to do for today. Worry about the future later. [/QUOTE]
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