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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 598336" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Lisa, you're definitely right about the anxiety. difficult child's anxiety is off the charts, although this has gotten much better with time and the right medications. Some of it might be wanting to return to the safety of childhood, but I think part of it might be straight sibling rivalry, but with that weird regression thing thrown in.</p><p></p><p>Skotti, I'm so glad to hear that your oldest easy child has developed so well from working. difficult child's only been at his job since last November, so I don't think a lot of that work-ethic stuff has really sunk in with him yet. He's still getting used to the idea that this is pretty-much the reality for his whole adult life. He's very socially inclined, but he's just bad at it. Fortunately, in his supported work environment, everyone else is too so he doesn't get grief for it.</p><p></p><p>Dash, IC, I'm not really holding my breath that difficult child will grow up all of a sudden when he turns 25. I'm hoping to see him continue to make steady gains, as he has been doing. I guess my bigger worry is his willingness to throw it all away at the drop of a hat. Last summer when mother in law died, difficult child had to move back home for a couple of months while we got his new independent living placement sorted out, and it was he**-on-wheels for the whole time. All of the progress he'd made with skills, medication compliance, hygiene, ADLs, behaviour management, etc. was gone by the end of the first weekend that he was back. </p><p></p><p>I wish he was better at expressing his thoughts, so I could maybe get some insight into what's going on in that mind of his.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 598336, member: 3907"] Lisa, you're definitely right about the anxiety. difficult child's anxiety is off the charts, although this has gotten much better with time and the right medications. Some of it might be wanting to return to the safety of childhood, but I think part of it might be straight sibling rivalry, but with that weird regression thing thrown in. Skotti, I'm so glad to hear that your oldest easy child has developed so well from working. difficult child's only been at his job since last November, so I don't think a lot of that work-ethic stuff has really sunk in with him yet. He's still getting used to the idea that this is pretty-much the reality for his whole adult life. He's very socially inclined, but he's just bad at it. Fortunately, in his supported work environment, everyone else is too so he doesn't get grief for it. Dash, IC, I'm not really holding my breath that difficult child will grow up all of a sudden when he turns 25. I'm hoping to see him continue to make steady gains, as he has been doing. I guess my bigger worry is his willingness to throw it all away at the drop of a hat. Last summer when mother in law died, difficult child had to move back home for a couple of months while we got his new independent living placement sorted out, and it was he**-on-wheels for the whole time. All of the progress he'd made with skills, medication compliance, hygiene, ADLs, behaviour management, etc. was gone by the end of the first weekend that he was back. I wish he was better at expressing his thoughts, so I could maybe get some insight into what's going on in that mind of his. [/QUOTE]
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