So now it seems that David has started hacking computers too. He is changing passwords on his brother’s computer. Time to use a random password generator instead of a dictionary.
On the plus side, David starts with his respite care provider tomorrow. I think that will be very good for him. Give him some social skills and the perspective of living with another family. Maybe he won’t be quite so difficult for us when he comes back.
It’s in the past.
That is how David responds when we try to talk to him about the threats that he made toward that individual on facebook.
“I don’t want to talk about it, because it’s in the past.”
It was last Wednesday February 29. Just because it is in the past doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it. He is not allowed to use computers. So he argued with his mom about using the iPad. So now he isn’t allowed to be in his room alone. Why? he steals and it is easier to keep an eye on him in the common areas rather than in his room. Why? He shares a room with his older brother and his older brother has a computer.
So very frustrated. David managed to convince the hospital staff that he was an angel and didn’t get his medicine because mom and dad didn’t give it to him.
yeah, ok, obviously they don’t know my son. I for one was not ready for him to come home. I don’t think that he was ready to come home. The people in the psych ward never asked us our opinion.
So now what do we do?
Respite starts this weekend. I am obligated to tell them what happened. If he behaves like this, how long will they be his respite providers? How long before he convinces them that we are the abusive parents that deprive him of life, liberty and the use of a computer…?
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I find myself repeating everything I say to David. Don’t, Don’t, Don’t do that. Don’t do this…
Don’t touch the computer without permission, don’t touch the tv without permission. Don’t touch the Wii without permission. You are not allowed on facebook. Over and Over and Over again. Yet, each morning I get up and when I check my email I find that he has attempted to access facebook, or he has attempted to access yahoo, or…
He was born with a traumatic brain injury. I understand that. He has obsessive compulsive disorder, he is oppositional defiant, he has ADHD, he has facets of Autism, he has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, he has Reactive Attachment Disorder. And apparently, he has no memory.
I don’t know. I am just so frustrated. I wish that I had a magic wand that I could wave which would allow me to remedy all of the issues that he was born with.
This morning, he had a meltdown as the rest of the kids were leaving for school. Absolutely refused to listen to reason, and went off the scale because he couldn’t have things his way.
Now we are off to meet with the respite care provider. Hopefully this meeting goes well.
Any ideas on how I can help him remember what he can and can’t do?
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