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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 531995" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>I had to change the wording on the labels.</p><p>Here's a couple examples (yes, I'm still thinking)...</p><p>- I used to call him "frustrating"... now I just say he's "challenging"</p><p>- I used to wonder where his intellegence got lost... now I wonder what he is using it on ('cause it isn't the things "society" expects, like homework)</p><p>- I used to fret over what happened to "my" boy... now, I remember that he never was "mine". He's his own person. I can't get him back, because he never was there. All I can do is build a relationship from where we are right now, and try and help him find himself. Trust me - if you saw our backyard right now, you'd understand that there's a big spread between the boy I thought I had, and the boy I have... and yet, I suspect that the day may come when other sides of him show up - the sides I saw 10 years ago...</p><p></p><p>Even then, most of this is ramble ... I'm at work (with brain going 100 miles an hour on something else...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 531995, member: 11791"] I had to change the wording on the labels. Here's a couple examples (yes, I'm still thinking)... - I used to call him "frustrating"... now I just say he's "challenging" - I used to wonder where his intellegence got lost... now I wonder what he is using it on ('cause it isn't the things "society" expects, like homework) - I used to fret over what happened to "my" boy... now, I remember that he never was "mine". He's his own person. I can't get him back, because he never was there. All I can do is build a relationship from where we are right now, and try and help him find himself. Trust me - if you saw our backyard right now, you'd understand that there's a big spread between the boy I thought I had, and the boy I have... and yet, I suspect that the day may come when other sides of him show up - the sides I saw 10 years ago... Even then, most of this is ramble ... I'm at work (with brain going 100 miles an hour on something else...) [/QUOTE]
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