Where to start?
As some know my oldest has a severe learning disability, it's a speech/language/comprehension disorder, and it is pretty strong, it is sometimes hard to communicate with him and because of this he has no real friends to speak of, although everyone at school loves him and tries to engage him, he is just socially awkward.
In January I started to notice a disconnect, so did his teacher, but it isn't uncommon for him so nobody thought a whole lot of it. But then I started to notice a little more aggitation and a more pronounced disconnect. He got sick in Feburary which seems to have really brought everything to head, and had me keeping him out of school cause it seemed to aggrivate it even more (he says nothing happened). I got him to one phyciatrist but he did NOT like her, so I called around and can't get him into another phyciatrist untill the 24th of this month, which is about a month from his last appoinment.
Today I got a call from his special ed teacher and the school phyciatrist pulled in some favors and got me a number to a counsler and they got us in today. The counsler still wants him into the phyciatrist, cause he says that Ted present as Phzophrenic(sp?) and has depression. I learned that my son fears his future and having no wife and kids in his life, this I already suspected from previous "conversations" with him, so it wasn't a surprise.
But all he does is pace back and forth till all hours of the night, at times it's like he is not there, there is a blank look to him, he is very irritated by the older kids, but deals better with the little ones, he said he doesn't hear voices or anything, but that his brain never shuts off.
This is so hard to watch, and frustrating as the mom and there isn't much I can do for him. I just thought I would share it feels good to get that off my chest and if you made it through....thank-you!
As some know my oldest has a severe learning disability, it's a speech/language/comprehension disorder, and it is pretty strong, it is sometimes hard to communicate with him and because of this he has no real friends to speak of, although everyone at school loves him and tries to engage him, he is just socially awkward.
In January I started to notice a disconnect, so did his teacher, but it isn't uncommon for him so nobody thought a whole lot of it. But then I started to notice a little more aggitation and a more pronounced disconnect. He got sick in Feburary which seems to have really brought everything to head, and had me keeping him out of school cause it seemed to aggrivate it even more (he says nothing happened). I got him to one phyciatrist but he did NOT like her, so I called around and can't get him into another phyciatrist untill the 24th of this month, which is about a month from his last appoinment.
Today I got a call from his special ed teacher and the school phyciatrist pulled in some favors and got me a number to a counsler and they got us in today. The counsler still wants him into the phyciatrist, cause he says that Ted present as Phzophrenic(sp?) and has depression. I learned that my son fears his future and having no wife and kids in his life, this I already suspected from previous "conversations" with him, so it wasn't a surprise.
But all he does is pace back and forth till all hours of the night, at times it's like he is not there, there is a blank look to him, he is very irritated by the older kids, but deals better with the little ones, he said he doesn't hear voices or anything, but that his brain never shuts off.
This is so hard to watch, and frustrating as the mom and there isn't much I can do for him. I just thought I would share it feels good to get that off my chest and if you made it through....thank-you!
He sounds like such a good kid, if only there was a way to make life normal for him. I hate to think of anyone being unhappy like that. Hopefully he'll come to realize that there is someone out there for EVERYONE and if he keeps looking and waiting, he'll find her someday and they might even be able to have kids. Just cause he's different, doesn't mean that he can't have the same things "normal" people have. It might just be more difficult to attain, and take a little longer. Nobody has to get married and have kids at 20 or anything, you know? He's got so much time to think about all that. Poor guy. <333