I had a meeting with mac's therapist today. She wants me to be prepared if there is another incident that puts us in the scope of police or dcf. I hadn't really let me brain go there. She wants to get a psychiatrist to do a full evaluation on mac so I can have a written report, also to establish a relationship with someone and to have a paper trail of that. She informed me what hospital to have him taken to if that is pressed by an outside force again.
Of course, because mac is bright and very intuitive, he is going to know that something is going on. She said it is going to be at least 2 months before we could to the evaluation because the psychiatrist and the whole process will have to be introduced slowly. She also said it is going to be pricey.
One more thing that most people are not going to understand, so I can't really share and vent. In most cases it is really great that mac presents so "normal" and unaffected. In other ways, it creates this huge gap between how people see him and the reality. I need to learn to just not share about this stuff with meatspace. Outside of here, there are like 3 people who kinda get it. Even family has to be reminded over and over again, and they sometimes still give me the attitude that makes me just loose it "that is just normal kid stuff".
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I'm glad you have the therapist to give you advice, even when it's hard and expensive.
Sorry you have so much to deal with, that sounds really rough.
I need to learn to just not share about this stuff with meatspace
That's a tough necessity. I wish you had more material support right around you.
oh msbelle! Many hugs to you and mac. I'm sorry it's been so hard lately.
msbelle, I don't remember -- do you belong to a parents-of-internationally-adopted-kids support group? (I know, like you have the free time!)
My boss adopted her 2 daughters from Guatemala, and she belonged to a group like that and found it HUGELY helpful with issues like this, especially because she's a single mom.
Like I said, I know your free time is limited, but maybe something like that would help -- and surely if Cincinnati has a group like that, NYC must have one (or more).
Unrelatedly, who the hell sings that awful poker face song? It was on the radio on my way in to work, and I can't get it out of my head, despite its massive horribleness.
Lady Gaga.
Who I thought was a really bad drag queen for the longest time.
Lady Gaga.
That's...an interesting name.
Who I thought was a really bad drag queen for the longest time.
Actually, the first time I heard it was at a drag show, with a big ol' queen performing to it. But apparently I managed to forget it until this morning, and now it won't get out of my head.
((msbelle)) That sounds so hard-- please know you can continue to share here.
no-cancer-ma to Burrell.
I also thought Lady Gaga was a drag queen for quite awhile.
