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<blockquote data-quote="HopingForTheBest" data-source="post: 724954" data-attributes="member: 22586"><p>Thank you, Tanya, Sam and Copa - it is easy sometimes to feel like this is all in my head. He is absolutely spectacular at gaslighting. He doesn't scream at us at all, he just acts like we're crazy. Combine the gaslighting, the non-emotion, and the complete disregard for any consequence... it's scary. </p><p></p><p>He lives with me 3 days per week and with his father the other 2 weekdays, and then alternate weekends. I have primary custody. He's a senior in high school with a semester remaining, and he's been accepted at a great university an hour and a half away. The next 8 months can't go by fast enough. </p><p></p><p>He hasn't been tested or diagnosed, but we have an appointment in March. There is a risk that he won't go, and he can't theoretically be forced, because he'll be 18. There was no hope of getting an appointment sooner. </p><p></p><p>No common sense.... that's my son. He can't plan past his nose... I've read that the inability to plan / prepare for the future is a hallmark of ASPD. </p><p></p><p>Sam - thanks for the Cluster B forum - I'll check it out! Of course, the trick is they have to want to change. Right now I don't see any evidence of that.</p><p></p><p>Copa and Tanya - He's sooo good at gaslighting. He will behave so normally that it's hard to imagine that this kid could be ASPD. Other adults see him as the perfect kid. They haven't read his text messages like I have. I'm constantly asking myself if it's possible that he's just being a somewhat normal teen, ready to break away from parental authority. Meanwhile, I can't help but noting that he has the ability to hide his messages in other apps, and yet he left the threatening texts in his sent messages, and then laughed in his messages the next day because he knew I had read them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HopingForTheBest, post: 724954, member: 22586"] Thank you, Tanya, Sam and Copa - it is easy sometimes to feel like this is all in my head. He is absolutely spectacular at gaslighting. He doesn't scream at us at all, he just acts like we're crazy. Combine the gaslighting, the non-emotion, and the complete disregard for any consequence... it's scary. He lives with me 3 days per week and with his father the other 2 weekdays, and then alternate weekends. I have primary custody. He's a senior in high school with a semester remaining, and he's been accepted at a great university an hour and a half away. The next 8 months can't go by fast enough. He hasn't been tested or diagnosed, but we have an appointment in March. There is a risk that he won't go, and he can't theoretically be forced, because he'll be 18. There was no hope of getting an appointment sooner. No common sense.... that's my son. He can't plan past his nose... I've read that the inability to plan / prepare for the future is a hallmark of ASPD. Sam - thanks for the Cluster B forum - I'll check it out! Of course, the trick is they have to want to change. Right now I don't see any evidence of that. Copa and Tanya - He's sooo good at gaslighting. He will behave so normally that it's hard to imagine that this kid could be ASPD. Other adults see him as the perfect kid. They haven't read his text messages like I have. I'm constantly asking myself if it's possible that he's just being a somewhat normal teen, ready to break away from parental authority. Meanwhile, I can't help but noting that he has the ability to hide his messages in other apps, and yet he left the threatening texts in his sent messages, and then laughed in his messages the next day because he knew I had read them. [/QUOTE]
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