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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 391411" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Dash - </p><p> </p><p>Hi. You know in full print you sound like WOW....and you are WOW. But when I read between the lines? I see a Mom like me that thinks in the back of her mind, 'if I could figure this 'thing' out now; perhaps we could nip it in the bud and avoid future heartache down the road for her and us." Problem is, you like me and several other parents get caught up in the what if's and it's a never ending cycle of reading, research, false hopes. </p><p> </p><p>I'm not saying that you shouldn't keep faith - no no no. I'm forever hopefull that Dude will someday cure his severe case of cranial-rectalidis. That coupled with whatever mental illness he has is a dandy to say the least. But for the cranial part? I have hope. The other ? Well it makes me just nuts thinking? Is he turning borderline? Is that more schizophrenic? I mean I make Dammit Janet almost crazy asking "Does this sound Borderline Personality to you?" and still? I have no answers other than he will be what he will be and here I am left to put myself farther and farther away from my own kid and his fantastical world. See Dude is also living with Daddy-Do-Whatever Suits you and I think OMG HOW can you Do this after living here with rules, and structure and it is SO frustrating to me sometimes I think if I hear anymore IIIII will go crazy. So distance right now is about the only thing going for me. </p><p> </p><p>Like you, I love my child but the skewed perceptions of their realities is mind-blowing. I keep thinking ant and grasshopper, ant and grasshopper. I'm an ant, I raised an ant, I modeled an ants life and now I have this ridiculous, nincompoop grasshopper running all over the place, telling people for all I know he's related to the president, has a Maseratti, and lives in FL just for the Winter. Know what I mean?? (rolls eyes and exhales) and I'm the Queen of Sheba. (checks look in the mirror) - well I am pretty danged exotic looking......but seriously. If I told the whoppers he told? I'd be a flippin Burger King. And how he saves himself from the things he says or does he believe them? Well if your concert pianist met my race car driver? I bet we'd have an Einstein grandchild that would walk and talk before he was 3 mos. old. eeeeeeeesch! </p><p> </p><p>Anyway - (chuckle) hang in there. </p><p> </p><p>Hugs & Love </p><p>Star</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 391411, member: 4964"] Dash - Hi. You know in full print you sound like WOW....and you are WOW. But when I read between the lines? I see a Mom like me that thinks in the back of her mind, 'if I could figure this 'thing' out now; perhaps we could nip it in the bud and avoid future heartache down the road for her and us." Problem is, you like me and several other parents get caught up in the what if's and it's a never ending cycle of reading, research, false hopes. I'm not saying that you shouldn't keep faith - no no no. I'm forever hopefull that Dude will someday cure his severe case of cranial-rectalidis. That coupled with whatever mental illness he has is a dandy to say the least. But for the cranial part? I have hope. The other ? Well it makes me just nuts thinking? Is he turning borderline? Is that more schizophrenic? I mean I make Dammit Janet almost crazy asking "Does this sound Borderline Personality to you?" and still? I have no answers other than he will be what he will be and here I am left to put myself farther and farther away from my own kid and his fantastical world. See Dude is also living with Daddy-Do-Whatever Suits you and I think OMG HOW can you Do this after living here with rules, and structure and it is SO frustrating to me sometimes I think if I hear anymore IIIII will go crazy. So distance right now is about the only thing going for me. Like you, I love my child but the skewed perceptions of their realities is mind-blowing. I keep thinking ant and grasshopper, ant and grasshopper. I'm an ant, I raised an ant, I modeled an ants life and now I have this ridiculous, nincompoop grasshopper running all over the place, telling people for all I know he's related to the president, has a Maseratti, and lives in FL just for the Winter. Know what I mean?? (rolls eyes and exhales) and I'm the Queen of Sheba. (checks look in the mirror) - well I am pretty danged exotic looking......but seriously. If I told the whoppers he told? I'd be a flippin Burger King. And how he saves himself from the things he says or does he believe them? Well if your concert pianist met my race car driver? I bet we'd have an Einstein grandchild that would walk and talk before he was 3 mos. old. eeeeeeeesch! Anyway - (chuckle) hang in there. Hugs & Love Star [/QUOTE]
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