(12-15-2025 10:37 AM)goodknightfl Wrote: He was pretty hard left, but never saw him as a bad dude. I can't imagine he cared his kids were gay, Charlie was another situation, having a son who has Bi Polar with Schizophrenic tendency's I can feel for him. Nothing you do can change the illness. right now our son is in Mental health facility, but if and when he ever gets out we will have to be on high alert for the rest of our lives.
My son was told that about my grandson when he was about 10 or 11; he was a very anxious kid and "had ADHD." His parents institutionalized him twice at the urging of some shrink and put him on whatever drugs the "expert" doctors told them to. He's related some of the horrors he witnessed, such as the kid in the cell directly across from him hanging himself. He had a most horrible childhood, and all I could do was sit by and watch as his parents' adherence to the instructions from the experts left him scarred for life. They were told that he would never lead a normal life and would likely require care from them for the rest of his life.
When he turned 18, he moved out, he stopped taking his meds, and after a period of adjustment, he is now living on his own, gainfully employed, and making the best out of a crappy hand. It took him a minute, but he's figuring it out. He and his parents are just now figuring out how to mend their relationship.
I've had to remind him repeatedly over the years that the things that were done to him weren't done by his parents but by a broken system and a misplaced faith in it. They had no idea how to handle a child like him, and so they listened to the so-called experts and medicated him with everything they could think of to try to modify his behavior.
The doctors at that time were more than willing to hand out anything the drop-dead gorgeous pharma rep handed them for free as long as she kept providing lunches and views of those legs in a short skirt. Don't worry about the possible side effects, such as, in my grandson's case, enlarged breasts and weight gain. He's been working out and has gone from 320 down to 260 and looks great, but he's embarrassed about his chest. I keep reminding him that what he's achieved is remarkable and he has nothing to be embarrassed about; in fact, he should be proud. He's 28 years old now and has proven every doctor that ever treated him wrong.
It should be criminal the way some of these kids are treated.
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