Category Archives: asking for help

Admitting the horror

It has come to our attention that David has admitted to trying to kill animals with his hands, and with chemicals. I don’t fault David for admitting the horror that he has tried.  I don’t fault him for it, it is a symptom of his mental illnesses. Last year he attacked me more than once and tried to crash our vehicle when we were doing a transport of him to the mental health unit at the hospital.  Given that he has admitted these things, and our family has experienced the things that we have from him, why would I just bring him home? He is my son.  And I love him.  But. But he is not the only person to take into consideration.  Would it not be considered neglect or abuse to subject the rest of the family to a threat of harm from David?  He has shown the propensity

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Escalating behaviors

Yesterday afternoon about 1:00 pm, I was at David’s school to drop off his medications for next week.  School is 60 miles from home.  While there, the assistant principal pulled me aside to talk to me about David’s escalating behaviors at school.  At the time he was serving in school suspension for behaviors relating to an incident in physical education. We pulled David into the office to talk about the last couple of days of behavior, and he claimed that nearly everyone who accused him of something was lying, to include teachers and a few staff.  David was then returned to in school suspension where upon he refused to listen and follow the rule of one desk interval between students.  (so that there was at least a desk separating each student serving in school suspension.)  At this point the decision was made to send David home on out of school

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Update: Some interesting things to note

To the people he rides to and from school with every day. David is not allowed technology.  He is not allowed technology because he has threatened to kill people via said technology.  When you hand him your phone, ipod, technology, you are opening yourself up to problems with law enforcement because of the risk that he poses. He is not allowed on YouTube, he is not allowed access to facebook.  It would be much easier for you if you just don’t let him use your technology than it would be for me to list all of the things he is not allowed to do on technology. The other issue.  If you feed David, what are you expecting in return?   He looks up to you. Please respect the boundaries we have established for our son.  To you it is just a piece of pizza.  David sees it as much more. Update:

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