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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 632350" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>My first born son and darling boy has been homeless for three years, for the most part. He is 20 now, was 17 when he left home. He has couch surfed, slept in friends cars, slept on the floor in the apartments of people he meets on the street, slept in and on cardboard boxes, and now, for a long time, has slept under one of two bridges in town (meaning for the last 8 months or so). He frequents emergency rooms for minor things like headaches or cuts or what he describes as anxiety attacks. Sometimes he gets admitted to a psychiatric ward or detox (he is probably hospitalized briefly 5 or 6 times a year, and another dozen er visits) He had disability and food stamps, but I don't think he has them anymore. He begs. In the winter he shovels sidewalks for cash. Sometimes he gets a job delivering take out food, or washing dishes. He sells drugs.</p><p></p><p>As Child says, he gets free phones sometimes, and sometimes just uses a beater. He migrates with his loose group of other homeless people from free breakfast to free lunch to free clinic. He uses the computers at the Apple store, or he buys a cup of coffee at a coffee shop and can use their computers for 30 minutes. He uses the toilet at the train station. He carries his belongings in a backpack, but when that gets stolen (which seems to happen regularly) he'll carry them in plastic or paper grocery bags. He doesn't have much anyway, even when I give him warm clothes or new underwear it disappears. He gets medications and showers at a local center on weekdays. Sometimes he'll embark on a short stint with a social worker (meaning trying to get him lined up with housing, job preparedness, reinstate his disability, whatever). Sometimes he'll go to AA or NA and focus his day around those meetings.</p><p></p><p>Overall he is usually with other people, and they seem to have a pattern to their day. He is not hungry. He does not lack for food, drugs, or companionship, and has access to medications and social services if he tries.</p><p></p><p>That is his life. Now I"m going to stop typing and go back to mine.</p><p></p><p>Echo (bitter today)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 632350, member: 17269"] My first born son and darling boy has been homeless for three years, for the most part. He is 20 now, was 17 when he left home. He has couch surfed, slept in friends cars, slept on the floor in the apartments of people he meets on the street, slept in and on cardboard boxes, and now, for a long time, has slept under one of two bridges in town (meaning for the last 8 months or so). He frequents emergency rooms for minor things like headaches or cuts or what he describes as anxiety attacks. Sometimes he gets admitted to a psychiatric ward or detox (he is probably hospitalized briefly 5 or 6 times a year, and another dozen er visits) He had disability and food stamps, but I don't think he has them anymore. He begs. In the winter he shovels sidewalks for cash. Sometimes he gets a job delivering take out food, or washing dishes. He sells drugs. As Child says, he gets free phones sometimes, and sometimes just uses a beater. He migrates with his loose group of other homeless people from free breakfast to free lunch to free clinic. He uses the computers at the Apple store, or he buys a cup of coffee at a coffee shop and can use their computers for 30 minutes. He uses the toilet at the train station. He carries his belongings in a backpack, but when that gets stolen (which seems to happen regularly) he'll carry them in plastic or paper grocery bags. He doesn't have much anyway, even when I give him warm clothes or new underwear it disappears. He gets medications and showers at a local center on weekdays. Sometimes he'll embark on a short stint with a social worker (meaning trying to get him lined up with housing, job preparedness, reinstate his disability, whatever). Sometimes he'll go to AA or NA and focus his day around those meetings. Overall he is usually with other people, and they seem to have a pattern to their day. He is not hungry. He does not lack for food, drugs, or companionship, and has access to medications and social services if he tries. That is his life. Now I"m going to stop typing and go back to mine. Echo (bitter today) [/QUOTE]
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