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Where there any signs or you where blindsided?
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<blockquote data-quote="UpandDown" data-source="post: 694649" data-attributes="member: 19025"><p>Fascinating question. My son was never an easy child and required a lot of patience and attention since he was preschool aged. Shyness and anger were daily struggles. Yet, my husband and I were able to keep him in engaged in school, sports, activities. He was slow to warm to situations but once involved he took off and was very "successful". He made friends everywhere he went and was an intense yet seemingly normal child. He ALWAYS had problems with doing homework and our most stressful times were over making him do school work. Yet when he hit puberty, he slowly fell apart. First sign was grades began to slip, he got into a fight at school, addicted to video games. He was grounded many times over inappropriate texting on his cell phone. Then he began to be very hot headed on his sports team (very talented athlete who could have gotten a college scholarship)and then quit all sports. He began to smoke weed and experiment with other drugs. He lost close friends over this type of behavior. He had intense relationships with girls. His anxiety which we thought was shyness ramped up and he began to isolate . He was in all advanced classes. Now we wonder if he will graduate. I pray that somewhere inside him, all these successes and years of hard work are not lost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpandDown, post: 694649, member: 19025"] Fascinating question. My son was never an easy child and required a lot of patience and attention since he was preschool aged. Shyness and anger were daily struggles. Yet, my husband and I were able to keep him in engaged in school, sports, activities. He was slow to warm to situations but once involved he took off and was very "successful". He made friends everywhere he went and was an intense yet seemingly normal child. He ALWAYS had problems with doing homework and our most stressful times were over making him do school work. Yet when he hit puberty, he slowly fell apart. First sign was grades began to slip, he got into a fight at school, addicted to video games. He was grounded many times over inappropriate texting on his cell phone. Then he began to be very hot headed on his sports team (very talented athlete who could have gotten a college scholarship)and then quit all sports. He began to smoke weed and experiment with other drugs. He lost close friends over this type of behavior. He had intense relationships with girls. His anxiety which we thought was shyness ramped up and he began to isolate . He was in all advanced classes. Now we wonder if he will graduate. I pray that somewhere inside him, all these successes and years of hard work are not lost. [/QUOTE]
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