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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 363369" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Bean - I think I consciously don't think about this stuff most of the time, but it's kinda funny - it hit me today, just a little bit. I've got a HS reunion coming up. Now, I'm not going to go, but it's my choice (HS was just barely this side of Hades for me, LOL). But I started thinking about thank you and how he will never have the choice to go to a HS reunion. He was in RTCs and Special Education schools for so long, he doesn't even really have a HS to affiliate himself with. Still no GED, still not doing anything useful. Same old same old.</p><p></p><p>And then I started thinking about his friends - he doesn't have a single one that he "grew up" with. His circle now consists of a couple of kids from his last placement and a handful of street kids. There will be no one he can share childhood memories with. Not even his sibs, because heaven knows their childhood memories that involve thank you are the stuff that nightmares are made of.</p><p></p><p>But then I remembered that he tried to burn my house down last night and ruined yet another irreplaceable keepsake because he's got zero boundaries, zero common sense, and just doesn't give a darn. And I stopped feeling a sense of loss for what he will never know he's missing. </p><p></p><p>Neither of my 2 oldest had the prom, the graduation, all that stuff, one because of his choices and one because ... well, they just don't do that kind of stuff for the severely disabled around here (I was more than a bit peeved about that for quite a while, but now that the end of Special Education is so near, I just want it to be OVER, LOL). My youngest son probably won't ever do prom (though miracles do happen), but he will graduate and will go on to college. And my baby girl will do it all. So in a way, because I missed so many "normal" milestones with- the oldest 2 kids, when the younger 2 do hit them, they are that much sweeter. </p><p></p><p>And most of the time, I really do just try not to think about it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> One foot in front of the other, hon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 363369, member: 8"] Bean - I think I consciously don't think about this stuff most of the time, but it's kinda funny - it hit me today, just a little bit. I've got a HS reunion coming up. Now, I'm not going to go, but it's my choice (HS was just barely this side of Hades for me, LOL). But I started thinking about thank you and how he will never have the choice to go to a HS reunion. He was in RTCs and Special Education schools for so long, he doesn't even really have a HS to affiliate himself with. Still no GED, still not doing anything useful. Same old same old. And then I started thinking about his friends - he doesn't have a single one that he "grew up" with. His circle now consists of a couple of kids from his last placement and a handful of street kids. There will be no one he can share childhood memories with. Not even his sibs, because heaven knows their childhood memories that involve thank you are the stuff that nightmares are made of. But then I remembered that he tried to burn my house down last night and ruined yet another irreplaceable keepsake because he's got zero boundaries, zero common sense, and just doesn't give a darn. And I stopped feeling a sense of loss for what he will never know he's missing. Neither of my 2 oldest had the prom, the graduation, all that stuff, one because of his choices and one because ... well, they just don't do that kind of stuff for the severely disabled around here (I was more than a bit peeved about that for quite a while, but now that the end of Special Education is so near, I just want it to be OVER, LOL). My youngest son probably won't ever do prom (though miracles do happen), but he will graduate and will go on to college. And my baby girl will do it all. So in a way, because I missed so many "normal" milestones with- the oldest 2 kids, when the younger 2 do hit them, they are that much sweeter. And most of the time, I really do just try not to think about it. :winking: One foot in front of the other, hon. [/QUOTE]
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