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<blockquote data-quote="eekysign" data-source="post: 225515" data-attributes="member: 6479"><p>Thanks for this reply---you're actually pretty dead-on about the situation. Unfortunately, we're lacking in family, which is why it's always been just Mom and me. Mom's side (which is only one brother and his wife) is many states away, and my stepdad's side has <u>never</u> understood the difficult child thing, no matter how much they've seen the irrational raging over nothing. They just think she's a spoiled brat, and all she needs is a good stern talking-to. *rolls eyes* Oh, whyever didn't we think of trying that??! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Sigh!</p><p></p><p>They're nice people, but they have their own MASSIVE problems (adults AND kids), mental illness, drug use, DUIs, jail time, alcoholism, etc, so there really isn't much help from that sector. Honestly, the genetics passing through that family should be studied---even when the environment changes, they all turn out the same! How my stepdad ended up the most normal (although fairly introverted) person in the world, I will never understand.</p><p></p><p>So yes, you are absolutely right in many ways. She is out of the school now (and they kindly left it with the right to go back "when she gets her act together"), and is currently in intensive therapy several times a week in our hometown. She seems to be connecting with the psychiatric well, and has been very "even" over the last week and a half. No one's getting any hopes up yet, but she's GOING and TALKING, which is a new thing all by itself. I will just have to keep my fingers crossed for luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eekysign, post: 225515, member: 6479"] Thanks for this reply---you're actually pretty dead-on about the situation. Unfortunately, we're lacking in family, which is why it's always been just Mom and me. Mom's side (which is only one brother and his wife) is many states away, and my stepdad's side has [U]never[/U] understood the difficult child thing, no matter how much they've seen the irrational raging over nothing. They just think she's a spoiled brat, and all she needs is a good stern talking-to. *rolls eyes* Oh, whyever didn't we think of trying that??! :) Sigh! They're nice people, but they have their own MASSIVE problems (adults AND kids), mental illness, drug use, DUIs, jail time, alcoholism, etc, so there really isn't much help from that sector. Honestly, the genetics passing through that family should be studied---even when the environment changes, they all turn out the same! How my stepdad ended up the most normal (although fairly introverted) person in the world, I will never understand. So yes, you are absolutely right in many ways. She is out of the school now (and they kindly left it with the right to go back "when she gets her act together"), and is currently in intensive therapy several times a week in our hometown. She seems to be connecting with the psychiatric well, and has been very "even" over the last week and a half. No one's getting any hopes up yet, but she's GOING and TALKING, which is a new thing all by itself. I will just have to keep my fingers crossed for luck. [/QUOTE]
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