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When a friend doesnt want to hear a vent about difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="Skylark Matrix" data-source="post: 80480" data-attributes="member: 3919"><p>I have very few friends or family members who ever want to hear about difficult child issues, and I know that without even thinking about starting a conversation. They just don't get it. They are so judgemental and so clueless. Examples: they don't understand why we don't get difficult child her own car, and suggest that "she has to be able to go out with her friends". (that is when she is living at home, currently she isn't) Well, we do "let" her go out with her friends, anytime at all, just not while driving our vehicles that we paid for and need to go to work with. And that is really just a minor issue. difficult child has documented cognitive problems --- family and friends probably don't have delays, I don't know why they don't get it, they just don't. A few have offered advice - example, when she is driving me up the wall their solution would be to Kick her out. And that would accomplish what exactly???? She cannot function on her own. Now that she has been on her own for 3 weeks every "normal" family or friend is telling me "well, maybe she has grown up this time and things will work out" I think not..... this is just another short term idea that will come around to the same old thing, no job, no money, no place to live, although I truly think that this time when all that happens I am just going to send her to try and collect welfare. I'm not sure I can do life with her in the house anymore.</p><p>The only real friends any of us have who understand these issues are sitting right here reading this on their computer and encouraging us along our rough and rocky road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skylark Matrix, post: 80480, member: 3919"] I have very few friends or family members who ever want to hear about difficult child issues, and I know that without even thinking about starting a conversation. They just don't get it. They are so judgemental and so clueless. Examples: they don't understand why we don't get difficult child her own car, and suggest that "she has to be able to go out with her friends". (that is when she is living at home, currently she isn't) Well, we do "let" her go out with her friends, anytime at all, just not while driving our vehicles that we paid for and need to go to work with. And that is really just a minor issue. difficult child has documented cognitive problems --- family and friends probably don't have delays, I don't know why they don't get it, they just don't. A few have offered advice - example, when she is driving me up the wall their solution would be to Kick her out. And that would accomplish what exactly???? She cannot function on her own. Now that she has been on her own for 3 weeks every "normal" family or friend is telling me "well, maybe she has grown up this time and things will work out" I think not..... this is just another short term idea that will come around to the same old thing, no job, no money, no place to live, although I truly think that this time when all that happens I am just going to send her to try and collect welfare. I'm not sure I can do life with her in the house anymore. The only real friends any of us have who understand these issues are sitting right here reading this on their computer and encouraging us along our rough and rocky road. [/QUOTE]
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