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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 710578" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Upanddown? Did I tell you that my son went to Job Corps when he was 18? I think I must have. Some of the trainings are fantastic: like LVN, and electrician, computer programming I think. If I were me and I still had some control I would get my son to Voc Rehab now or pay a vocational rehabilitation specialist to find out your son's aptitudes and limitations to determine the best likelihood of success for him.</p><p></p><p>I cannot believe how misguided and in the clouds I was. I decided that my son could be a nurse. While he is highly intelligent and compassionate and does like science, he is among the most forgetful and disorganized of people. Immediately he latched onto the letters, NP (nurse practitioner) telling himself and others that he was working towards this career goal.</p><p></p><p>This is when I realized I really had a problem--or he did--because he maintained that he was becoming an NP while doing not one thing to work towards the goal. It is almost as if the lacks the executive cognitive function to see that a life is composed of step by step sequencing of tasks.</p><p></p><p>It is funny now (except I am not going ha, ha, ha) that he does have interest in and aptitude for going back to college. He knows enough by experience of what it entails. And yet he is afraid, I think. He may be beginning to understand what it is to have a goal. Perhaps. Or maybe his hesitancy is because he knew always that this was my goal--and by doing so, he empowers me, not himself.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, Upanddown. sometimes I think I am going backward not forward. And I think this expressly related to having any expectations at all that he will treat me like a human being. You see my son is kind and compassionate. He is loving. Except when he is not. And I fall into the trap. Always.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 710578, member: 18958"] Upanddown? Did I tell you that my son went to Job Corps when he was 18? I think I must have. Some of the trainings are fantastic: like LVN, and electrician, computer programming I think. If I were me and I still had some control I would get my son to Voc Rehab now or pay a vocational rehabilitation specialist to find out your son's aptitudes and limitations to determine the best likelihood of success for him. I cannot believe how misguided and in the clouds I was. I decided that my son could be a nurse. While he is highly intelligent and compassionate and does like science, he is among the most forgetful and disorganized of people. Immediately he latched onto the letters, NP (nurse practitioner) telling himself and others that he was working towards this career goal. This is when I realized I really had a problem--or he did--because he maintained that he was becoming an NP while doing not one thing to work towards the goal. It is almost as if the lacks the executive cognitive function to see that a life is composed of step by step sequencing of tasks. It is funny now (except I am not going ha, ha, ha) that he does have interest in and aptitude for going back to college. He knows enough by experience of what it entails. And yet he is afraid, I think. He may be beginning to understand what it is to have a goal. Perhaps. Or maybe his hesitancy is because he knew always that this was my goal--and by doing so, he empowers me, not himself. Honestly, Upanddown. sometimes I think I am going backward not forward. And I think this expressly related to having any expectations at all that he will treat me like a human being. You see my son is kind and compassionate. He is loving. Except when he is not. And I fall into the trap. Always. [/QUOTE]
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