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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 416321" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Oddly enough this is one of gfgbro's very strong traits. He can make friends even with-o speaking the language. At 14 there was that air traffic controller strike and he was supposed to fly from some friends in Mass to my aunt's in VA where my folks would get us a few days later (I was already with the aunt). My parents got held up a couple of days. Gfgbro always wanted to see Difficult Child so he changed his airline tickets to have a LONG layover in Difficult Child so he could sightsee. Of course he didn't TELL anyone - we spent several frantic hours trying to find him before we figured it out.</p><p> </p><p>He has been all over the world, and lived in conditions that are pretty incredible -good and bad incredible. After he spent a season inAntarctica (where he actually met and had a short private chat with Sir Edmund Hilary, one of his heroes) he wound up on a cattle station or sheep station in New Zealand. After a month therehe was put mostly in charge while the owners left town for a few days. I thought it was a big joke when he first told us about it, but he had documents, etc... giving him legal authority while they were away.</p><p> </p><p>Years later he went to India. No plan, no hotel room, nothing. He stayed a couple of days with friends of our family. The rest of the time he did what the locals did. Except for the days he spent on a bench at the bus station, sick as a dog because he mixed alcohol (that he smuggled in and could have been BEHEADED for in that area) and an antibiotic he brought in case he needed it. He stayed with a number of families that he didn't know while he was there. I truly admire the courage to take a trip like that and the ability to make friends that easily, even when you don't speak the language!</p><p> </p><p>I didn't know that a lot of our difficult children had this talent. I just thought it was my bro, Know what I mean?? </p><p> </p><p>What is okay and normal and even desirable for a difficult child is so fundamentally different than it is for the rest of us. I don't know that any of us turly CAN understand their choices. The difficult children are included in that list of bewildered people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 416321, member: 1233"] Oddly enough this is one of gfgbro's very strong traits. He can make friends even with-o speaking the language. At 14 there was that air traffic controller strike and he was supposed to fly from some friends in Mass to my aunt's in VA where my folks would get us a few days later (I was already with the aunt). My parents got held up a couple of days. Gfgbro always wanted to see Difficult Child so he changed his airline tickets to have a LONG layover in Difficult Child so he could sightsee. Of course he didn't TELL anyone - we spent several frantic hours trying to find him before we figured it out. He has been all over the world, and lived in conditions that are pretty incredible -good and bad incredible. After he spent a season inAntarctica (where he actually met and had a short private chat with Sir Edmund Hilary, one of his heroes) he wound up on a cattle station or sheep station in New Zealand. After a month therehe was put mostly in charge while the owners left town for a few days. I thought it was a big joke when he first told us about it, but he had documents, etc... giving him legal authority while they were away. Years later he went to India. No plan, no hotel room, nothing. He stayed a couple of days with friends of our family. The rest of the time he did what the locals did. Except for the days he spent on a bench at the bus station, sick as a dog because he mixed alcohol (that he smuggled in and could have been BEHEADED for in that area) and an antibiotic he brought in case he needed it. He stayed with a number of families that he didn't know while he was there. I truly admire the courage to take a trip like that and the ability to make friends that easily, even when you don't speak the language! I didn't know that a lot of our difficult children had this talent. I just thought it was my bro, Know what I mean?? What is okay and normal and even desirable for a difficult child is so fundamentally different than it is for the rest of us. I don't know that any of us turly CAN understand their choices. The difficult children are included in that list of bewildered people. [/QUOTE]
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