Author Archives: David's Father

Hide and Seek – or I tell no lies.

“David… David.. David.. Tomorrow is a brand new day.  Maybe we can try telling the truth.” Until 6pm, we had a good day going.  Then when I went to call David in for the night, he was not where I could see him.  He didn’t respond to my calls of his name.  So I went looking for him.  He claimed that he was feeding our dog Max and playing with him.  I know this because he came around the side of the house as I pulled out of the drive way. He wasn’t where Max is, I checked there. So he “finished watering Max” as he was carrying out a pitcher of water, he turned and asked if I had called for him.  I replied with “go, go, go,” meaning he should finish watering Max. Fifteen minutes later, I went looking for him.  No where to be found. So I

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a quiet celebration

Although most days are not without their small skirmishes, the past couple of days have been really good for David.  Or I should say David has been really good. Sure, he is : Argumentative moody disruptive demanding silent verbose frustrating But he has also been helpful kind thoughtful respectful friendly playful cuddly (with the pets not any humans) energetic So let’s celebrate the small successes.  He is after all 13 years old.  And full of all kinds of hormones in addition to the mental health issues he has. Tweet #fighting4answrs

the storyteller

David is gifted. Gifted at telling stories, then when caught in a lie, he is gifted at changing the story to suit what ever is going on in his head. When caught in a lie, he will turn and twist the story enough to make the listener doubt what they heard. If this happens, you need to get him to stop talking, make sure that you write down the conversation as best you can remember, then ask him to confirm details. David fails to realize that eventually the truth always comes out. Why not just tell the truth to begin with?  I have no idea. It gets more difficult to keep the story straight when details can be confirmed by calling the people he claims did things, or are doing things on his behalf. So now we wait for confirmation. Remember, you can only believe about 40% of what David

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