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Harm of everyone knowing you have a difficult child (ventish)
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 554793" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I never thought we would be in this situation. My difficult child is certainly not any household name around this country, but our tabloids are so short of juicy scandals that they use anything I guess. And while only people enthusiastic of his sport do know who difficult child is, they could make those headlines our tabloids so love: 'Top singer with DUI' (meaning a singer, who once did back up singing for a band some may have heard of, at least it once had a song in top ten of some list), 'Olympic athlete shoplifted' (yeah, he was 67th at a marathon in Montreal '76) and so on. It's little bit like your college athletes, most of them only make it to bigger headlines if they screw up. But of course people always find scandals interesting, so difficult child's deeds are still gossiped.</p><p></p><p>I had heard before that publicity and screwing up (especially addiction related) always gets religious loonies come out of their caves, but I was surprised that they would prey someone so little known as my difficult child. To my understanding, while some may really just want to get people they prey saved, for most the biggest motive is trying to get some publicity for their group. These loonies are not usually from mainstream churches, but from smaller group, who would just love to convert some more or less known person and then use them as a spokesman and advertising their group with those more or less well known celebrities. At least at times, when they hunt is successful those troubled celebrities seem to be very quickly talking both in those churches and also in media about how they got saved and about that church. Sometimes so quickly it is almost grotesque (i can remember one D class reality tv celebrity telling in the tv show, how she was saved last week thanks to this certain church and freed from alcoholism - while clearly and visibly drunk. If my son ever starts to get more interested on existential issues, I do hope it happens far from these churches...</p><p></p><p>I try not to talk with these people. Just tell that it not my business and I'm not giving my son's address or phone number. We have also advised difficult child simply not engaging in conservations with these people and I hope he does that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the biggest reasons I registered to this site is this. When difficult child was younger, I was involved with local site geared to parents of the kids with neurological issues (mostly Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or ADHD) but there is no way I could write about my difficult child to there now. That board I have recommend to people who have come to me and told about their difficult children. There is also local support board for addiction issues I do read (but not write) and that I have also recommended. But this board I'm not recommending to anyone I know in real life. And also here I try to keep some too identifying details on my own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 554793, member: 14557"] I never thought we would be in this situation. My difficult child is certainly not any household name around this country, but our tabloids are so short of juicy scandals that they use anything I guess. And while only people enthusiastic of his sport do know who difficult child is, they could make those headlines our tabloids so love: 'Top singer with DUI' (meaning a singer, who once did back up singing for a band some may have heard of, at least it once had a song in top ten of some list), 'Olympic athlete shoplifted' (yeah, he was 67th at a marathon in Montreal '76) and so on. It's little bit like your college athletes, most of them only make it to bigger headlines if they screw up. But of course people always find scandals interesting, so difficult child's deeds are still gossiped. I had heard before that publicity and screwing up (especially addiction related) always gets religious loonies come out of their caves, but I was surprised that they would prey someone so little known as my difficult child. To my understanding, while some may really just want to get people they prey saved, for most the biggest motive is trying to get some publicity for their group. These loonies are not usually from mainstream churches, but from smaller group, who would just love to convert some more or less known person and then use them as a spokesman and advertising their group with those more or less well known celebrities. At least at times, when they hunt is successful those troubled celebrities seem to be very quickly talking both in those churches and also in media about how they got saved and about that church. Sometimes so quickly it is almost grotesque (i can remember one D class reality tv celebrity telling in the tv show, how she was saved last week thanks to this certain church and freed from alcoholism - while clearly and visibly drunk. If my son ever starts to get more interested on existential issues, I do hope it happens far from these churches... I try not to talk with these people. Just tell that it not my business and I'm not giving my son's address or phone number. We have also advised difficult child simply not engaging in conservations with these people and I hope he does that. One of the biggest reasons I registered to this site is this. When difficult child was younger, I was involved with local site geared to parents of the kids with neurological issues (mostly Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or ADHD) but there is no way I could write about my difficult child to there now. That board I have recommend to people who have come to me and told about their difficult children. There is also local support board for addiction issues I do read (but not write) and that I have also recommended. But this board I'm not recommending to anyone I know in real life. And also here I try to keep some too identifying details on my own. [/QUOTE]
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