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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad" data-source="post: 708363" data-attributes="member: 4152"><p>This story reminds me of our daughter in some ways. She has a mental illness and other health issues. I honestly think she can, at best, only work very PT.... But such work is hard to find. In the past (I think she might do better now...but unsure) She would luck out and find very PT work. BUT, she would get overly emotional with issues involving her friends and miss work way too easily. It was very upsetting to observe this. With her disabilities and very limited ability to even find very PT work...it's sad that she didn't recognize all the complications involved here and push herself harder. I always say that our "special" kids don't seem to show gratefulness and put such high value on "friends," friends that might be fly by night and who have not proven themselves trustworthy in any way, shape or form. These things are hard to describe to others.</p><p></p><p>Example. I went to a wedding recently. The daughter, the bride, graduated from college with an advanced degree and is doing very well with her degree and career. The mother mentioned at the wedding that when she (the daughter) was a young women, one summer she was bored and she asked how she could earn money. The mother pulled from her shelf a huge book that most (even adults) would find boring and told her to read it and she would pay her to read it and report on it. She took it as a serious job and read it and did a report. She was a young woman and had a good work ethic and was GRATEFUL for the opportunity to earn money. Missing her friends didn't play into the equation.</p><p>This is the opposite of most of our kids and it is so sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad, post: 708363, member: 4152"] This story reminds me of our daughter in some ways. She has a mental illness and other health issues. I honestly think she can, at best, only work very PT.... But such work is hard to find. In the past (I think she might do better now...but unsure) She would luck out and find very PT work. BUT, she would get overly emotional with issues involving her friends and miss work way too easily. It was very upsetting to observe this. With her disabilities and very limited ability to even find very PT work...it's sad that she didn't recognize all the complications involved here and push herself harder. I always say that our "special" kids don't seem to show gratefulness and put such high value on "friends," friends that might be fly by night and who have not proven themselves trustworthy in any way, shape or form. These things are hard to describe to others. Example. I went to a wedding recently. The daughter, the bride, graduated from college with an advanced degree and is doing very well with her degree and career. The mother mentioned at the wedding that when she (the daughter) was a young women, one summer she was bored and she asked how she could earn money. The mother pulled from her shelf a huge book that most (even adults) would find boring and told her to read it and she would pay her to read it and report on it. She took it as a serious job and read it and did a report. She was a young woman and had a good work ethic and was GRATEFUL for the opportunity to earn money. Missing her friends didn't play into the equation. This is the opposite of most of our kids and it is so sad. [/QUOTE]
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