I don't think he reads. He has a huge collection of videos saved on his phone from some sites he belongs to. He is trying to get his High school diploma.
Not to speak harshly of them but his parents have had issues with themselves, each other and several really bad breaks in life. He never had a chance.
Both his parents are accomplished teachers. They have clue how to be parents. There is a video on YouTube by his mother for winning the NEA Foundation's Awards for Teaching Excellence.
I have put some history into his hands by passing some family things to him. He dwells on the past. I am trying to convince him to get a new circle of friends and that his future is up to him and no one else.
He may sell them to buy drugs. I don't know. He tends to tell you everything which is good but what came out scared the heck out of me.
"Commemorating Byrd's Antarctic Expedition." c. 1930
Japanese occupation money used in the Philippines during WW2
I gave him a small collection of foreign currency I had with several nice pieces from 1906- 1939.
I went through this with my son. He had viral meningitis when he was 3 and he was forever different. Your child is your child. The first thing you have to do is get it straight in your head. I don't think Chase's parents ever did that. We went through all the "special needs" stuff at school, The stigmatization, and the "Discipline problems" with Grant. We got him through college and he has a job, a new house and a baby on the way. He is a teacher too. He works at it because he went through the crap these kids are subjected to.
But it is much easier to undo damage at the time it occurs than after scars are formed for over 19 years.
It was a day spent discussing Oxycontin and drug prices on the street and the rise and fall of the Ottoman empire. He likes dogs and I have several. Lucky slept on his lap which impressed him. He tries to shock you. I cant be shocked by that stuff. I feel like there is always a way out but he has to find it himself and want it. I can only help.
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