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    To share or not to share

    I need to tap the collective wisdom. My sister has come a long way in her detachment from her addict son. My nephew (age 28) relocated near me for a fresh start, secured a job and shares an apartment with my son. He did well for only a few months. He's been chugging along, working and using for...
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    NJ Teen Sues Parents for Financial Support

    Came across this headline this evening. Even PCs can act like difficult children sometimes and then ask the courts to back them. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-honor-student-sues-parents-cut-age-18-suit-article-1.1709440
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    Appalling letter from a neighbor of an boy with autism.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/karla-begley-autistic-letter-teen_n_3780378.html
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    Effectiveness of BIPs

    I've gone back to school recently and have been studying the "theory" behind functional behavior assessments and BIPs. My experience as a mother of a difficult child and the school is that the BIP is not an effective tool at all. My question is...is it the implementation of the BIP that causes its...
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    Update and ???s about neurontin

    Since I last posted in March difficult child had 2 more attempted suicides and has been hospitalized since the last. Medications have been changed and he is settling in nicely. In fact he is due to come home from the stepdown facility tomorrow and being a IOP program. At one point he was having 19 panic...
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    Pushed over by edge...by me :(

    I posted a few weeks back about how we had had enough with difficult child and had asked him to leave the home by March 22nd. As some of you had warned, this was too much for him to handle. I had begun prepping him for self sufficiency by not phsyically giving him his medications, you can guess the outcome of...
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    Shelters???

    We have asked difficult child to leave our home. Short story...enrolled in community college in September, dropped out in October. Made no efforts to get a job or doing anything constructive from October to January. Re-enrolled for Spring semester in January, dropped out end of February. Has done nothing...
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    Opinions, please...What should I have done?

    Yesterday, difficult child lost his cell phone privileges because he did not answer the phone when we called the evening before. House rule is that we pay for the phone and expect our calls to be answered. He perseverated on the phone for 7 hours. "Can I have my phone?", "Why?" repeat ad nauseum. He...
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    Mood Stabilizer with-o weight gain?

    I have been lurking here for quite some time. Thanks to all for allowing me into your lives and making me feel not so alone. My son has ballooned up to 250 lbs. Any ideas regarding a mood stabilizer that does not promote weight gain? Depakote and seroquel seem to be the culprate. With...
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