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Vocabulary Word of the Day – Dunderhead

So.

David was in trouble tonight for going into a section of the house that is off limits to him. (it is the upstairs area)

There followed a good hour long diatribe of colossal proportions that involved words that even I had to consult a dictionary to determine the meaning of.  Now, it would seem that when I ignored him, he would run out of gas.

Peterbilt truck

Peterbilt truck (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

No such case.  As a result, he became even more angry.

Did you know that “Dunderhead” is an actual word?  Truly.  You can look it up.

It means: “stupid person”.

I thought that he was making up words as he went along.

He did use quite a few words that I can’t repeat outside of the cab of a Peterbilt or a Kenworth.

Well, I guess I could use them if I was a drunken sailor, but I digress.

 

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You are like night staff

Tejas Nair Photography Silent Night

Tejas Nair Photography Silent Night (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

David told me last night that I was like “night staff”.

He told me this after I explained why I stay up all night with him.

You see, David tried to convince me that he would sleep through the night and not cause trouble.

Yeah, pardon me buddy, I don’t believe that for a second.

As much as he frustrates me some days, I have to admire his intelligence.  He is pretty creative in how he puts things together.

His perception of reality, at times, seems skewed though.  He thinks that everything that happens is a personal attack on him.

He also claims that other people are out to frame him when he is accused of stealing an item from another family member.

At safe bed he blamed the boy across the hall from him.  At home he blames his next oldest brother.

Today is the first day in two weeks that he will be in school, and not in safe bed.  I hope that the day goes well for him.

On Thursday, we will be admitting him to the residential care facility.  I am of mixed feelings about it.

But then, if my son thinks that I am nothing more than night staff, that kind of puts me into a new perspective for him doesn’t it…

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We Brought David Home

We brought David home for a couple of days before he goes to residential care.

I can see now that outcome wasn’t what we had hoped.  He has done nothing but steal, lie, yell and generally be combative since we brought him home.  The only time we haven’t had to be hyper-vigilant is when he is sleeping, but even then we can’t turn our backs on him, as it is like he has a sixth sense about it and will wake up and get into things that he isn’t allowed to be touching.

David goes to safe bed on Thursday.  I hope that we can get through the next couple of days without any harm coming to the rest of the family.  Either emotional or mental.  At 11, David can say and do some pretty hurtful things.

English: iPod Touch

For example, his sister spent most of the day playing with him, doing things that David wanted to do.  Just to be nice.  What does he do?  He steals from her, and then lies about it blaming it on one of his brothers.  What did he steal?  an iPod.  A fairly simple device that his sister worked for.  She worked for all of the music on the device.  She worked for all of the games on the device.  And he resets it, thereby wiping it out and making her need to reset it to get it back to what she had.

He hasn’t become physically aggressive to anyone yet, but I give it time.  On Monday he will be gone for 9 hours a day for school.  Thursday, he will go right from school to the residential facility he will be living in.

I can’t put the rest of the family through this abuse anymore.  After he is in residential care, we will seek counseling for the rest of the family.

I feel bad. I feel bad for David.  I feel bad for the rest of the family. All the way around, I feel like someone is losing out in this situation.

I think that what I need to do is pray.  Pray that we are doing the right thing for David.  Pray that we are doing the right thing for the rest of the family.  No amount of love on our part can break through the sociopathic tendancies or the reactive attachment disorder.  I wish that were false.

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