I don’t know what your religious beliefs are. If you are a bible-believing born again Christian, you might bring your son to a spirit-filled minister of the Lord...one who is empowered by the Holy Spirit, and ask for special prayer/laying on of hands.
My 17 year old grandson has Asperger’s Syndrome plus severe cognitive delays. He is exactly like “Michael” only older and stronger. My single mother daughter and I have been hit, pushed, spit at, swore at, had our hair pulled, been kicked, and head butted over the years.
Other times, (since his cognitive age is about 8) he sits on our lap, and is happy as a lark. He can go from happy to enraged in 60 seconds.
We love him, but are also at the same time afraid OF him and FOR him. They have him on several powerful meds, which I believe may be causing some of his problems.
I truly do feel sorry for this woman, and the pain she has in dealing with her son. It is the 'progressives' in this country who have made life difficult for her. They are the ones who pushed the notion that we shouldn't put the mentally ill in hospitals, that this was denying them their freedom. They didn't take into consideration what families would have to endure if their kids began to experience mental problems, and then get worse as they become young adults, then move into adulthood, when they are no longer under any semblance of control from their parents. No, they don't belong in jail, but in order to change this, we'll have to fight against the liberals who want everyone to believe they have cornered the market on compassion for the downtrodden in this country.
Not video games, not movies, and not guns.
Okay...I may get a lot of heat for this...but this sounds like a normal 13 year old who has been raised without a dad and without discipline. Instead of REAL disciplinary measures, the mom figures the kid must be mentally ill so she dopes him up. This of course makes him mentally ill for real because putting mind altering drugs into a developing brain can’t be a good thing.
I hope she keeps her 13 year old genius (her words) away from civilized children. He is not likely to amount to much more than a thorn in his mothers side. It is sad.
My heart aches for you. Backin the day there were Christian schools/homes that had residential programs for children with behavior problems, acting out, etc. I don’ t know if this an option for you. God bless, and I hope you and your child find the help that he needs and the safety your family needs.
My heart aches for you. Backin the day there were Christian schools/homes that had residential programs for children with behavior problems, acting out, etc. I don’ t know if this an option for you. God bless, and I hope you and your child find the help that he needs and the safety your family needs.
My heart aches for you. Backin the day there were Christian schools/homes that had residential programs for children with behavior problems, acting out, etc. I don’ t know if this an option for you. God bless, and I hope you and your child find the help that he needs and the safety your family needs.
No mention of a father in the article that I saw. I’ve seen boys act exactly like what this lady describes, and they all belonged to single or divorced mothers.
And after threatening mom with a knife, juvenile detention is exactly where he belongs for a few months,, locked in a cell. Even if “the chaotic environment of jail does exacerbate his sensitivities to stimuli”.
And flame away, but he needs to experience some stimuli, right on his little a$$.
Another problem is that aspergers have become trendy. They call them cute names like “aspies”, and always remind us that they are SO deep, and are the second coming of einstein, etc. Who let him wear a pocket protector to school? Who let him get into goth BS? Make him act right and not dress and behave in ways that make him the weird kid. A lot of this is behavioral on the part of the kid, and not something they are utterly powerless to control. It’s a big game to them.
Imagine the pressure of having to live with a mother who would say such things about you to the world. Imagine the pressure of having to please her.
Maybe he really is a basket case, but maybe not. We are only given her viewpoint.
I had a psychologist friend who specialized in troubled kids. He had come to the conclusion that most kids' psychological problems were caused by the parents. He said that he usually concluded that the parents, not the kids, were the ones really needing the therapy.
I could easily be wrong, but I suspect that she is locked in a psychological battle with her son, and this was just her latest escalation. Her blog is all about me, me, me, and this post about her son is all about "See what a long-suffering victim I am?" If she just wanted advice, she could have posted anonymously to many forums, including Free Republic. That is not what she did. She made damn sure that her son could be publicly identified. Despicable.
I hope that someone will intervene to get the kid out of that house ASAP and get him professional help. Even if dad has a few problems of his own, I hope he is encouraged or at least permitted to become MUCH more involved in his son's care.
(And yes, I could easily be wrong, and I know that in some of these cases there are no good answers.)
I cannot believe how much play this blogger is getting. Read all of her posts. She’s just a hodgepodge storyteller.
Dear Lord this sounds exactly like my son. They keep sending him home without helping him.