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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 620653" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Update - Who the heck knows what Diva had. Except for we did discover she is allergic to penicillin. Perfect. She's been on another class of antibiotics and the swelling and pain are gone, so who knows. </p><p></p><p>Wee came home last weekend. husband and I both had "ah-ha" moments with him this week. The kid is completely unprepared for life. I mean, completely and utterly. He has no idea of how to get a haircut, make a phone call and leave msg on voice mail, or how to use a laundromat. So we don't think it was laziness re: his laundry, it was lack of knowledge and fear. </p><p></p><p>He's always been wicked smart, and I guess we assumed he was picking up this stuff as we went or at least had the gumption to figure it out. We were horribly wrong and feel awful. Wee was the easy kid. While he was in elementary and middle school, thank you and Boo were both completely out of control with their various issues. Wee was quiet, didn't make waves, was pretty self-sufficient (we thought). By the time he was in high school, he was pretty set in his ways and we didn't push him a lot (though he *did* go to Spain senior year, his idea, which in hindsight was truly extraordinary). We did him a huge disservice. So.... we're gently guiding him thru some basic lifeskills stuff. Lots of reassurance. Getting some stuff lined up, like driving school, but making *him* do the calls, with us right there to prompt/guide him.</p><p></p><p>I think the most telling statement was when I went down a couple weeks ago to try to get him to see reason. He was just so utterly unhappy. I was trying to get him to verbalize some of his issues (kid is still stoic as a stone) and he said to me: <em>Mom, life was so much easier before. You woke me up, you drove me to school, and everything else was taken care of. </em></p><p></p><p>I had no *idea* how literal he was being. My heart breaks for the kid. He really is just the sweetest and smartest guy I've ever run into. Hopefully we can gently introduce him to the world. We just had absolutely *no* idea how badly we did at preparing him for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 620653, member: 8"] Update - Who the heck knows what Diva had. Except for we did discover she is allergic to penicillin. Perfect. She's been on another class of antibiotics and the swelling and pain are gone, so who knows. Wee came home last weekend. husband and I both had "ah-ha" moments with him this week. The kid is completely unprepared for life. I mean, completely and utterly. He has no idea of how to get a haircut, make a phone call and leave msg on voice mail, or how to use a laundromat. So we don't think it was laziness re: his laundry, it was lack of knowledge and fear. He's always been wicked smart, and I guess we assumed he was picking up this stuff as we went or at least had the gumption to figure it out. We were horribly wrong and feel awful. Wee was the easy kid. While he was in elementary and middle school, thank you and Boo were both completely out of control with their various issues. Wee was quiet, didn't make waves, was pretty self-sufficient (we thought). By the time he was in high school, he was pretty set in his ways and we didn't push him a lot (though he *did* go to Spain senior year, his idea, which in hindsight was truly extraordinary). We did him a huge disservice. So.... we're gently guiding him thru some basic lifeskills stuff. Lots of reassurance. Getting some stuff lined up, like driving school, but making *him* do the calls, with us right there to prompt/guide him. I think the most telling statement was when I went down a couple weeks ago to try to get him to see reason. He was just so utterly unhappy. I was trying to get him to verbalize some of his issues (kid is still stoic as a stone) and he said to me: [I]Mom, life was so much easier before. You woke me up, you drove me to school, and everything else was taken care of. [/I] I had no *idea* how literal he was being. My heart breaks for the kid. He really is just the sweetest and smartest guy I've ever run into. Hopefully we can gently introduce him to the world. We just had absolutely *no* idea how badly we did at preparing him for it. [/QUOTE]
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