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It’s gcse results day today. The way school went on about it you’d think it was the end of the world if you don’t get your results.
Anyway picked my sons up with him and he seemed OK earlier he got More than enough for his college place.
This evening he’s told mum he’s taken several packs of paracetamol so he’s off to hospital now should be home in a few hours after some NAC treatment just in case.
Poor boys had such a shit year he’s had diabetes diagnosis, ASD, hospital stays and he still managed to finish school I think he’s a hero for doing it.
Bloody school tho they spent two years of KS4 drumming how important it is and loading these kids up with pressure. Then to top it off there’s kids standing around the entrance screaming about their 8s and 9s.
Im sorry needed to vent I’m so upset that he feels bad and angry at the pressure put on these kids unnecessarily
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I hope your son is ok Rich and he settles now his results are in 🙂
Agree, they are under alot of pressure these days and even if he hadn’t got the results he needed, a prevoc year at college isn’t the end of the world being a year later on course!
They do a lower level of the course he wants so if he didn’t meet the entry requirements he could have done that as an access course anyway.
He’s very sensitive and quiet doesn’t normally talk. He’s had ASD symptoms since a baby, diabetes recent and now probably coeliac too he missed so much school in Y11 due to health and he had to drop Wednesdays to stay home and he still managed good grades.
He has a quite academic sibling which I think he compares himself too but he’s just wired up different. I hope he’s gonna do better being treated like an adult at college very different environment.
I got a call at 4am to go pick them up as his para levels were low enough to not need a nac infusion as the first one takes 8 hours apparently. So we were home in bed by 5 and they’re still asleep now letting them lie in.
Sounds like you’re doing all the right things for him Rich 🙂
I have an adult son with Autism and it’s not easy for him, managed to get him into his own flat in a decent area about 3 years ago. He had a rough time all through school but didn’t get diagnosed until he was 15 and the school made no effort to help him as he was going into his final year. College was a bit better but after 3 years of being moved onto different courses they ran out of things they thought would be suitable.
He’s managing sort of OK where he is, he even took a walk down into Durham to do a bit of shopping today. Usually I’m down his 3 or 4 times a week, either shopping, taking him for a meal or just popping in for a while. If I’m away he comes and stays here and looks after the cat (his best friend), usually only for a day or two but I’ve had a few trips to Majorca for a week at a time in the last 18 months. Then when I get back he still stays here for another week or even longer, last time his neighbours thought he’d moved out as they hadn’t seen him for 3 weeks!.
My ex-wife walked out 18 years ago taking my then 11yr old daughter with her and leaving me with the boys, it caused her a lot of problems resulting in self harm and depression, she’s 30 now but still has depression and anxiety. She had a lot of problems when she went off to Uni in Canterbury and ended up in A&E with paracetamol overdoses several times and being given oral charcoal etc. Not an easy thing to support her through with her being over 300 miles from home 🙁
I wish you and your family all the best and hope he has a great future 🙂
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
He’s home OK now bit shaken up by his decision definitely a cry for help rather than not wanting to be here.
Hospital were brilliant got him outta a and e straight away into a quiet away with lowered lighting.
He’s got a referral to mental health etc fwiw.
Hopefully once he starts college that stress hanging over him will be gone he doesn’t like nor cope with change so I think once Sept rolls around and he’s done the bus journey and met his fellow students he’ll be OK.
Found out he has an online girlfriend, no it’s definitely not a creep or anything but it was her who told him to tell us what he’d done so she’s got her head screwed on at least. Wonder how long until I’m doing trips up and down the country so they can see each other lol
I wouldn’t mind trips in th UK!, my son’s friend lives in Mobile, Alabama !! He used to live in Florida which was easier to get to, I was looking at taking him over to Mobile for a couple of weeks in December (he couldn’t do it on his own), it was well over £3500, and a 150 mile car trip after a 9 plus hours flight into New Orleans is not my idea of a good time!.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
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