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<blockquote data-quote="AHF" data-source="post: 411701" data-attributes="member: 11180"><p>I like the thoughts about "the son that is still in there." But I have to say, I wonder. Sometimes I feel as though my son has been murdered, and the difficult child standing in front of me, or talking to me on the phone, is his murderer. That is, he has systematically and deliberately cut from himself all the things that made him the sweet, optimistic, vulnerable person he was. What we have now is a shell filled with emotional toxins. I know that's pessimistic. But sometimes I feel I should detach by accepting this image, by (in essence) mourning my son who is gone forever, even as the ties that bind keep me trying to help this empty-eyed young man who has appeared in his stead. Does anyone else ever feel this way?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AHF, post: 411701, member: 11180"] I like the thoughts about "the son that is still in there." But I have to say, I wonder. Sometimes I feel as though my son has been murdered, and the difficult child standing in front of me, or talking to me on the phone, is his murderer. That is, he has systematically and deliberately cut from himself all the things that made him the sweet, optimistic, vulnerable person he was. What we have now is a shell filled with emotional toxins. I know that's pessimistic. But sometimes I feel I should detach by accepting this image, by (in essence) mourning my son who is gone forever, even as the ties that bind keep me trying to help this empty-eyed young man who has appeared in his stead. Does anyone else ever feel this way? [/QUOTE]
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