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<blockquote data-quote="WSM" data-source="post: 266981" data-attributes="member: 5169"><p>I don't think it's normal at all, but I have so much trouble getting people to listen. husband goes back and forth. difficult child lies, well, so do the other kids. And he can't understand when I try to explain why it's different. Or won't. And the school actually told us that they never had any problem with him, so why did we send difficult child to military school (I wrote a venting angry thread about this)? Even though he had he arrested THREE TIMES for bringing weapons to school. And lots of counselors, therapists, social workers have told us he's within the range of normal, or on the low half. </p><p> </p><p>And difficult child seems so normal to outsiders. You'd all like him. You really would. difficult child is good at looking normal. husband tells about his ex wife how she could go into psychosis and be raging and crazy and out of control and he'd call the police to come baker act her, and as soon as she saw them, she'd snap to sanity for a brief bit, and be logical and reasonable and cogent and she could fool them. And then they'd go away and she'd fall right back into psychosis. It happened so much that he learned to tell the police to come back in 15 minutes, because that was as long as she could hold it together when she was in psychosis.</p><p> </p><p>I think difficult child is doing some of that.</p><p> </p><p>And husband wants very much to believe it isn't so bad, that I just see the worst of it and take it all personally. husband wants to believe so badly that difficult child is mostly normal, just maybe a little out of range, but mostly normal and the troubled bits can be smoothed out with extra love and understanding. He wants this soooo badly.</p><p> </p><p>And it's not normal. And frankly, society doesn't care much. He's not a menace to them, so it's our problem.</p><p> </p><p>Also....</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for the tip about projective testing. He might have. There's a test I'm looking for that put him on the borderline of normal and needing residential education and treatment. I forget what it's called. difficult child was three points away from the next catagory and the doctor evaluating did not have all the information. I'll tell husband about it. </p><p> </p><p>I want someone to see how bizarre, how OFF this is. But no one listens to me because I'm just the stepmother. The wicked stepmother. You at this forum, my friends and family are the only ones who believe me when I say something is REALLY REALLY WRONG, this is NOT NORMAL. It seems the rest of the world wants to be blind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WSM, post: 266981, member: 5169"] I don't think it's normal at all, but I have so much trouble getting people to listen. husband goes back and forth. difficult child lies, well, so do the other kids. And he can't understand when I try to explain why it's different. Or won't. And the school actually told us that they never had any problem with him, so why did we send difficult child to military school (I wrote a venting angry thread about this)? Even though he had he arrested THREE TIMES for bringing weapons to school. And lots of counselors, therapists, social workers have told us he's within the range of normal, or on the low half. And difficult child seems so normal to outsiders. You'd all like him. You really would. difficult child is good at looking normal. husband tells about his ex wife how she could go into psychosis and be raging and crazy and out of control and he'd call the police to come baker act her, and as soon as she saw them, she'd snap to sanity for a brief bit, and be logical and reasonable and cogent and she could fool them. And then they'd go away and she'd fall right back into psychosis. It happened so much that he learned to tell the police to come back in 15 minutes, because that was as long as she could hold it together when she was in psychosis. I think difficult child is doing some of that. And husband wants very much to believe it isn't so bad, that I just see the worst of it and take it all personally. husband wants to believe so badly that difficult child is mostly normal, just maybe a little out of range, but mostly normal and the troubled bits can be smoothed out with extra love and understanding. He wants this soooo badly. And it's not normal. And frankly, society doesn't care much. He's not a menace to them, so it's our problem. Also.... Thanks for the tip about projective testing. He might have. There's a test I'm looking for that put him on the borderline of normal and needing residential education and treatment. I forget what it's called. difficult child was three points away from the next catagory and the doctor evaluating did not have all the information. I'll tell husband about it. I want someone to see how bizarre, how OFF this is. But no one listens to me because I'm just the stepmother. The wicked stepmother. You at this forum, my friends and family are the only ones who believe me when I say something is REALLY REALLY WRONG, this is NOT NORMAL. It seems the rest of the world wants to be blind. [/QUOTE]
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