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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 614935" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p>Hi -</p><p></p><p>Forgive me for not knowing your situation or background - Oh wait. Yeah I have a son, he's 23, he's mentally ill, he's jerked me around his ENTIRE life, and I've tried to FIX everything because I too thought without MY 'HELP' aka / INTERFERNCE he would not /could not seek it on his own -and what was that which would happen.......(oh yeah he'd live his life and....I'd live mine) and he would eventually "get" A SMACK ON THE NOSE FROM THE REAL WORLD. Well yup. A four year prison term is what he got. Not jail - prison. And two felonies. Wanna know what he thinks of me not interfering in his life? He thinks it's great. -Really. Well at first he was petty mad. I mean being homeless, and living out of dumpsters, and not getting money from home was tough, but we told him that's what happens when you do what you do and do not listen or follow the rules. Like our rules at home, or the rules of a job, or landlord, or room mate. Weird huh? WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? GAWD - <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/disgust.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":disgust:" title="disgust :disgust:" data-shortname=":disgust:" /> I mean you should just be able to do what youwant to how you want to and when you want to where you want to. RIGHT? Well when you can not do that?? YOU end up in JAIL and mad at Who??? Yourself. So when no one person bails you out - but one person does put a few bucks here and there on your commissary so you can get soap and razors - because the state approved razors tear up your face, and you literally get written up for not shaving? And Mom is the only person who writes to you and everyone else forgets you exist? And now school is a privilege - so you beg to go s you can get out of your cell....yeah... jail is good. Prison can be even better........because it IS no place you want to be. AND no place you want to go back to-so you may........just maybe learn something about how good you had it. WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. Doesn't mean it isn't hell on you - because it stinks .........but I'd bet Dude is not going back. lock down 23/7 in a 6/8 with bad food ------means something to him. </p><p></p><p>Just my .05 worth. Take it or leave it. And fyi county jail is worse sometimes than prison due to overcrowding so I'm told. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 614935, member: 4964"] :eek::eek: Hi - Forgive me for not knowing your situation or background - Oh wait. Yeah I have a son, he's 23, he's mentally ill, he's jerked me around his ENTIRE life, and I've tried to FIX everything because I too thought without MY 'HELP' aka / INTERFERNCE he would not /could not seek it on his own -and what was that which would happen.......(oh yeah he'd live his life and....I'd live mine) and he would eventually "get" A SMACK ON THE NOSE FROM THE REAL WORLD. Well yup. A four year prison term is what he got. Not jail - prison. And two felonies. Wanna know what he thinks of me not interfering in his life? He thinks it's great. -Really. Well at first he was petty mad. I mean being homeless, and living out of dumpsters, and not getting money from home was tough, but we told him that's what happens when you do what you do and do not listen or follow the rules. Like our rules at home, or the rules of a job, or landlord, or room mate. Weird huh? WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? GAWD - :disgust: I mean you should just be able to do what youwant to how you want to and when you want to where you want to. RIGHT? Well when you can not do that?? YOU end up in JAIL and mad at Who??? Yourself. So when no one person bails you out - but one person does put a few bucks here and there on your commissary so you can get soap and razors - because the state approved razors tear up your face, and you literally get written up for not shaving? And Mom is the only person who writes to you and everyone else forgets you exist? And now school is a privilege - so you beg to go s you can get out of your cell....yeah... jail is good. Prison can be even better........because it IS no place you want to be. AND no place you want to go back to-so you may........just maybe learn something about how good you had it. WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. Doesn't mean it isn't hell on you - because it stinks .........but I'd bet Dude is not going back. lock down 23/7 in a 6/8 with bad food ------means something to him. Just my .05 worth. Take it or leave it. And fyi county jail is worse sometimes than prison due to overcrowding so I'm told. :eek: [/QUOTE]
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