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Thinking of cutting off communications with difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 618263" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Aud,</p><p></p><p>I did not have him taken away (although when he was younger we did have him escorted to a wilderness treatment center). He was living at home and was a junior in a high school for kids with a variety of social and learning disorders...he had more and more troulbe and eventually stopped going just at the end of his junior year. He worked a variety of under the counter jobs, then the Occupy movement started, and he joined htem...first hanging out with them, then spending the night, then he moved out. That was over two years ago and he hasn't lived at home...of his own volition...since. He's had some psychiatric hosptiatlizations (6 weeks in Bellevue when he briefly travelled to NY to join Occupy there) and multiple shorter ones. He's slept on friends couches, on their rooftops, in their cars, on the street. We got him a bed at Covenenatn House for a while, but he kept breaking curfew so they threw him out. He stayed with me for short periods, and his dad the same...but eventually balked either at having a curfew or some other relatively minor rule. He left us, and eventually we locked the door. We didn't have him taken away.</p><p></p><p>and BITS...I do realize I am glad/lucky he calls. I have an internal clock whose alarm goes off if I don't hear from him or hear of him or see facebook activity for four days...I become convinced he is dead, start wondering how to search hostpitals or morgues and basically go crazy. So as much as I can't deal with talking to him right now, I'm glad SO takes that on...which we both acknowledge he does for me, so I know that difficult child is alive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 618263, member: 17269"] Aud, I did not have him taken away (although when he was younger we did have him escorted to a wilderness treatment center). He was living at home and was a junior in a high school for kids with a variety of social and learning disorders...he had more and more troulbe and eventually stopped going just at the end of his junior year. He worked a variety of under the counter jobs, then the Occupy movement started, and he joined htem...first hanging out with them, then spending the night, then he moved out. That was over two years ago and he hasn't lived at home...of his own volition...since. He's had some psychiatric hosptiatlizations (6 weeks in Bellevue when he briefly travelled to NY to join Occupy there) and multiple shorter ones. He's slept on friends couches, on their rooftops, in their cars, on the street. We got him a bed at Covenenatn House for a while, but he kept breaking curfew so they threw him out. He stayed with me for short periods, and his dad the same...but eventually balked either at having a curfew or some other relatively minor rule. He left us, and eventually we locked the door. We didn't have him taken away. and BITS...I do realize I am glad/lucky he calls. I have an internal clock whose alarm goes off if I don't hear from him or hear of him or see facebook activity for four days...I become convinced he is dead, start wondering how to search hostpitals or morgues and basically go crazy. So as much as I can't deal with talking to him right now, I'm glad SO takes that on...which we both acknowledge he does for me, so I know that difficult child is alive. [/QUOTE]
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