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the greatest treasure

David turned thirteen years old last Tuesday.  On July 28th, will be 11 years since his adoption was finalized.  How quickly the time goes. For David’s birthday, we went out to the facility he lives in to visit him.  Most of the family went.  We arrived late Monday, spent Tuesday, Wednesday and part of Thursday visiting David. He wasn’t with us all of the time, just in 2 or 3 hour spurts.  It was good to see him.  He has grown so tall. The hard part wasn’t just in seeing him, it was the fear.  I could sense it in his siblings, though they all did their best to hide it.  I know Mom, I and Aunt all felt that fear. Before we even arrived at the facility we had a plan in place to lock up all of our technology while David was with us. Nothing like giving him

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a coming birthday

So David has a birthday coming up.  he will be a teen. In my quest to get Medicaid reinstated, he was given something called a recipient liability. He has a recipient liability because he has an income.  (SSI and an adoption subsidy).  it isn’t more than 900 a month, and the subsidy isn’t his.   anyway.  I am not upset about the recipient liability. The reason that he has a recipient liability is because he lives independently. Yeah.  Because he lives independently.  he will be 13. How many 13 year old kids do you know that live independently? He is in a psychiatric residential treatment facility. Tweet #fighting4answrs

ah… David, David, David….

David is a pretty smart kid.  At least when he wants to be. Let me give you an example. Attachment. Now the average person wouldn’t use that word in their everyday language.  David heard the term once, and immediately it became part of his lexicon.  He used it regularly during the conversation. He doesn’t know why he doesn’t form attachments to people, or why he attacks those who love him most.  He just knows that since we used the word attachment today, that it is important, and he needs to use that word. I have noted this in the past when talking with David.  If we talk about privileges, he will use the word during the rest of the conversation.   If we talk about attitude, he will use that word.  Is it just a coincidence? It could very well be. I don’t think so. For example.  today we talked about

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