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Homeless son, 26, how do I cope with this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 619327" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>My son wasn't an ecowarrier, but he dropped out to live with the Occupy Movement, in two different major cities including our hometown, as well as visiting Occupy sites in other cities. Overall I would say he lived at their encampments for over a year on and off, but mostly on. He set up a cardboard box house. He had "friends", a feeling of belonging, he could adopt a stand on issues he really didn't know or understand but he could shout slogans, he could hang with a group of people who also felt like outsiders. HOnestly I can see how it was a great period for him...of course he was homeless, smelly, living on handouts, and ultimately when they all left he hung on with a few crazies till he was picked up by the cops and hospitalized...but I suspect that is sort of similar to your eco-warrior son's choices...it isn't the thing itself that has meaning, it is being with a group, and, critically, NOT HAVING TO DEAL WITH BEING A GROWN UP IN A WORLD THAT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO MANAGE.</p><p>IN a weird way I"m kind of happy for him that he had that period...but he was 18, and I kind of hoped it was just a transition of being a young rebel...really it was just more opting out and more crazy..but still. He felt he belonged. I don't think he feels that way any other time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 619327, member: 17269"] My son wasn't an ecowarrier, but he dropped out to live with the Occupy Movement, in two different major cities including our hometown, as well as visiting Occupy sites in other cities. Overall I would say he lived at their encampments for over a year on and off, but mostly on. He set up a cardboard box house. He had "friends", a feeling of belonging, he could adopt a stand on issues he really didn't know or understand but he could shout slogans, he could hang with a group of people who also felt like outsiders. HOnestly I can see how it was a great period for him...of course he was homeless, smelly, living on handouts, and ultimately when they all left he hung on with a few crazies till he was picked up by the cops and hospitalized...but I suspect that is sort of similar to your eco-warrior son's choices...it isn't the thing itself that has meaning, it is being with a group, and, critically, NOT HAVING TO DEAL WITH BEING A GROWN UP IN A WORLD THAT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO MANAGE. IN a weird way I"m kind of happy for him that he had that period...but he was 18, and I kind of hoped it was just a transition of being a young rebel...really it was just more opting out and more crazy..but still. He felt he belonged. I don't think he feels that way any other time. [/QUOTE]
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