> wybtersgrace2 wrote: You have to DO to GET
> (slsh uses this one a lot).
My son is like this. But for him, most often it's the EDD getting in his way. He can't see ahead to the consequences, even if it happens over and over and over.
Right now it's drivers ed. He needs to earn the money to pay for the learner's permit test and do the research on what driving school will be best for him and DMH has offered to pay for the drivers ed.
But he so far has done none of it. Yesterday we found a truck on Freecycle that would be a good first car, but he must find the money for minor repairs, insurance and registration. This means getting a job and he always has some nonsensical excuse why he can not.
And now we have the diagnosis, we understand why this happens over and over. He does eventually learn, but it takes dozens, sometimes hundreds, of repetitions for him to "get it".
He's 16 now and I often despair of him ever surviving on his own, even with help.
We thought it was laziness, or stubbornness for years. He is not unintelligent, so WHY did he NEVER seem to "get it"?? But once he was diagnosis'd and we found out the severity of the disability, it finally made sense.
Even though it's much much harder, we do make him do to get. But sometimes it gets awful old: over and over and over....
Pam R.
