She began writing the book partly because “it was a way of spending time with him”. And besides, she couldn’t help herself: “My writing comes from a place I don’t have total control over.”As someone with literary inclinations, I can relate to that; Elizabeth Grove talks about it in a manner much better than I can ever do. What I don't understand though, and here's where my amateur-status plays a part, is publishing it; publishing a tract takes it to a different level.
His seeming inability to stick to any plan – our child who has always been so reliable, so easy to deal with, so very considerate and sensible. His complete inability to get to school on time. Followed by his inability to get to school.Kids are such a pain when they become teenagers, amiright? Joking aside, after reading the whole thing, it seems it had very little to do with cannibus at all: weed was just the scapegoat for how their wonderful, perfect little boy grew up into a... stubborn teenager who decided to drop out of school to become an artist instead.
This whole thing has almost turned into a national version of an AIBU thread.Sounds like a great answer to the "what's the best way to troll ask.mefi" thread :)
"My seventeen year old son smoked too much dope, used to come home at all hours, was abusive to me and my husband and came to Sunday dinner in his underpants so we threw him out of the house and let him survive on his own. Now I've written a book about him to put my side of the story. Am I being unreasonable?"
If she's telling the truth in that excerpt then no way is the kid only smoking weed.I think the skepticism was to the grey face and the green semi-liquid (chyme) that was frothing at the kid's mouth. That to me seemed like either like something made up or as others have 'pointed out, ketamine, LSD, Angel Dust or whatever else the 'youts' are into now.
I disagree. This is a common phenomenon. Teenagers often go through a rebellious phase, during which they'll reject their parents goals and aspirations for them. The parents attribute the rebellion to the weed smoking, and insist the kids stop immediately...
A perforated (torn) eardrum is not usually serious and often heals on its own without any complications. Complications sometimes occur such as hearing loss and infection in the middle ear. A small procedure to repair a perforated eardrum is an option if it does not heal by itself, especially if you have hearing loss. — Patient UKYou can cause a perforated eardrum by shouting down someone's ear. That really doesn't take a great deal of energy. So it's not reasonable to conclude from the fact of the perforated eardrum that his blow was the harder one. Indeed, the whole point of my derail post upthread was that the outcome can have little correlation with either the intent or the strength of the blow.
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O, the tribulations of the privileged. Yet more proof that people with no real problems will find it necessary to invent them. Good on the kid for calling out his mother on her naive Reefer Madness-esque ridiculousness, and hopefully he can grow up normal despite having a mother who'll gladly exploit him.
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