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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 312466" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>This is a hard one. I agree with Compassion about maintaining boundaries when deciding what and how much to tell people about what our difficult children are up to these days, especially when there are comparisons to be made with their PCs.</p><p></p><p>Like Suz, most of the people who know me also know my difficult child. In many cases, they participated in neighbourhood searches when he ran away, dealt with the police when they were called, etc. </p><p></p><p>The other kids his age in the neighbourhood are all getting through university, taking jobs, and growing up nicely, but no one expected that from difficult child. Honestly, I think they were expecting that he'd live at home with us forever, so they seem almost impressed that he's managed to move out at all, regardless of where he's living.</p><p></p><p>What I find more difficult is when difficult child is back home for a visit. His behaviour is still so "off", even with all the progress he's made, and he tends to regress when he's here, so I (and, I think, the neighbours) worry that we will have more incidents like we used to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 312466, member: 3907"] This is a hard one. I agree with Compassion about maintaining boundaries when deciding what and how much to tell people about what our difficult children are up to these days, especially when there are comparisons to be made with their PCs. Like Suz, most of the people who know me also know my difficult child. In many cases, they participated in neighbourhood searches when he ran away, dealt with the police when they were called, etc. The other kids his age in the neighbourhood are all getting through university, taking jobs, and growing up nicely, but no one expected that from difficult child. Honestly, I think they were expecting that he'd live at home with us forever, so they seem almost impressed that he's managed to move out at all, regardless of where he's living. What I find more difficult is when difficult child is back home for a visit. His behaviour is still so "off", even with all the progress he's made, and he tends to regress when he's here, so I (and, I think, the neighbours) worry that we will have more incidents like we used to. [/QUOTE]
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