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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 32844" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Fran - we posted at the same time. These are my concerns exactly. thank you doesn't do "balance". Never has. Gets defensive and angry when we try to gently expand his horizons. </p><p></p><p>thank you believes adamantly magic is real and will solve all the world's troubles, which in turn will solve his. How do you argue with that? </p><p></p><p>*I* think magic gives him a false sense of control and power (oxymoron, anyone?). It's yet another in a long line of external factors that he sees as the root of his difficulties. Has nothing to do with *him*. In spite of recent steps he's successfully taken to improve his situation, he's not making the connection between *his* behavior and his quality of life. Heaven help me, for all I know he was doing incantations this whole while and that's the reason in his mind for the changes.</p><p></p><p>I think he needs power and control and autonomy but in spite of years of therapy and teaching and trying to get him to understand how the real world works, he still opting for the easy way out. Much easier to "cast a spell" than be accountable and responsible for his own choices. Makes me very fearful for him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 32844, member: 8"] Fran - we posted at the same time. These are my concerns exactly. thank you doesn't do "balance". Never has. Gets defensive and angry when we try to gently expand his horizons. thank you believes adamantly magic is real and will solve all the world's troubles, which in turn will solve his. How do you argue with that? *I* think magic gives him a false sense of control and power (oxymoron, anyone?). It's yet another in a long line of external factors that he sees as the root of his difficulties. Has nothing to do with *him*. In spite of recent steps he's successfully taken to improve his situation, he's not making the connection between *his* behavior and his quality of life. Heaven help me, for all I know he was doing incantations this whole while and that's the reason in his mind for the changes. I think he needs power and control and autonomy but in spite of years of therapy and teaching and trying to get him to understand how the real world works, he still opting for the easy way out. Much easier to "cast a spell" than be accountable and responsible for his own choices. Makes me very fearful for him. [/QUOTE]
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