nvts
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difficult child 1 ended up ambulanced to the psychiatric ER again on Wed.
I'm getting REALLY sick of being hit. I'm just about at the point of taking a swing back at the little bugger (I never would - but one can fantacize!).
Here's the best part. I told the police (difficult child 1 called 911 - I was so mad that I wasn't fast enough to open the line before he dialed!) that if they wanted to bus him FINE! But I wasn't riding in the ambulance - they were going to have to figure something out because my Dad (80 yrs old) was going to have to stay with the other 3, put them to bed and then wake them up to come and get me and I wasn't having it. Enough is enough. This kid knows what to say to get them to take him, we'd sit for 6-8 hours for them to do a clandestine observation, be interviewed, I'd tell them that I wanted to admit him and then they'd send us home. This would end up with either a $30 dollar cab ride home OR standing at a bus stop for minimum one hour at 4:00 in the morning in the worst section of the island.
NOT GOING ON!
The police agreed to follow the ambulance and one of the officers would ride with him while I followed in the car.
Well, long story short - they interviewed both of us - difficult child 1 and I both stated that he needed to be checked in and they refused. And here's why:
He's faking. Plain and simple. He's faking. He was claiming to have an imaginary friend, Eric, talking haltingly so that he sounded like he was "effected" and claimed that this friend was real. The psychiatrist said "I've been doing this with kids for 22 years and I have NEVER, IN MY LIFE , met a kid as smart as this. His type of aspergers presentation CRAVES structure and organization. This is what the hospital is to him. He has someone to talk to when he wants and doesn't have to talk when he doesn't - If we put him in, he'll get out in a week and be back in the ER two days later. This kid was using psychological terminology that the ordinary child would NEVER know. I was actually unnerved for a moment and was looking around for Alan Funt Jr. I tripped him up during the questioning about Eric, but next time - he'd get the answers right."
Why oh why can't he use his superpowers for good rather than evil???!!!!
I'm fried. I'm truly burnt out on this kid.
Beth
I'm getting REALLY sick of being hit. I'm just about at the point of taking a swing back at the little bugger (I never would - but one can fantacize!).
Here's the best part. I told the police (difficult child 1 called 911 - I was so mad that I wasn't fast enough to open the line before he dialed!) that if they wanted to bus him FINE! But I wasn't riding in the ambulance - they were going to have to figure something out because my Dad (80 yrs old) was going to have to stay with the other 3, put them to bed and then wake them up to come and get me and I wasn't having it. Enough is enough. This kid knows what to say to get them to take him, we'd sit for 6-8 hours for them to do a clandestine observation, be interviewed, I'd tell them that I wanted to admit him and then they'd send us home. This would end up with either a $30 dollar cab ride home OR standing at a bus stop for minimum one hour at 4:00 in the morning in the worst section of the island.
NOT GOING ON!
The police agreed to follow the ambulance and one of the officers would ride with him while I followed in the car.
Well, long story short - they interviewed both of us - difficult child 1 and I both stated that he needed to be checked in and they refused. And here's why:
He's faking. Plain and simple. He's faking. He was claiming to have an imaginary friend, Eric, talking haltingly so that he sounded like he was "effected" and claimed that this friend was real. The psychiatrist said "I've been doing this with kids for 22 years and I have NEVER, IN MY LIFE , met a kid as smart as this. His type of aspergers presentation CRAVES structure and organization. This is what the hospital is to him. He has someone to talk to when he wants and doesn't have to talk when he doesn't - If we put him in, he'll get out in a week and be back in the ER two days later. This kid was using psychological terminology that the ordinary child would NEVER know. I was actually unnerved for a moment and was looking around for Alan Funt Jr. I tripped him up during the questioning about Eric, but next time - he'd get the answers right."
Why oh why can't he use his superpowers for good rather than evil???!!!!
I'm fried. I'm truly burnt out on this kid.
Beth