A Boys Future

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Planning for a future

For two months I have lived with this young man. I provide for his needs like a mother. And I will continue in this role for at least two more years.

There is so much that is a mystery to me. Most of the time he seems like a kid who has been pretty traumatized and is just begining to experience and learn things beyond the noise in his head, and that may be true. But there are other truths or guesses they make like fetal alcohol effect, and ptsd, maybe aspergers, and on and on.

I know living with him that he is defiitely "wired differently" than most of us. And I know he fluctuates from almost normal for his age to basically a happy preschooler.

What I don't know is what is next. What are the realistic goals and who helps?