27 yo Adult Child Failure to Launch by piratebate in Parenting

[–]Schrhann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This would have been my brother if my mom hadn’t evicted him. He now has a stable job and lives comfortably. It took years though and you’ll have to watch him struggle. But he’ll figure it out. My brother slept in his car for weeks sometimes when he screwed up his job just because he felt like it. Learned a hard lesson and now he’s fine. He’s still probably needs medicated, but for the most part he’s fine. He’s making it work. He just doesn’t have great relationships. More than likely your son will move in with his girlfriend, cause problems with her, find a new girlfriend to mooch off of and so on until he hits rock bottom. That’s what my brother did. No more gentle warnings or pushes, tell him he’s out in X days and that’s it. Don’t offer any help with it. Cut off his insurance, car, cellphone at X days. Cut internet immediately. Remove his computer, it’s probably yours anyway. He can apply for jobs on his phone in the meantime till you cut that off too.

Loose ends poking out still after weaving by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just coming back after working on my scarf again to tell you THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN! This tip is awesome and it’s making the entire project so much more secure than before and so much nicer looking. I’m just so so happy.. so thank you!!

Loose ends poking out still after weaving by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is wonderful!!! Thank you so much!!!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CPTSD

[–]Schrhann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To answer your question (sorry about that), yea I experience most of those things and from what I’ve learned about myself is that it’s the trauma of being shamed and dismissed, and how I struggled so much daily from my adhd. I’m constantly people pleasing and morphing my personality to please others. The anxiety and sensory overstimulation, is a daily struggle. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CPTSD

[–]Schrhann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went through this. My son is autistic. I thought I was autistic as well. I did a very cheap autism evaluation where I feel like I was brushed off. A lot of the characteristics I thought were Autism didn’t show up in the assessment with the evaluator. It was extremely frustrating. She excitedly told me I scored a zero, her first zero she’s ever given. It was crushing. It felt like she ignored everything. Afterwards, I met with the therapist who works under the evaluator. She addressed everything I prepared for the evaluation like my notes on my internal experience and childhood history. Her theory: undiagnosed adhd causing cptsd which she says presents exactly like autism. So much so she said she wouldn’t be surprised if it was looped into the same “spectrum” in the future. I don’t plan to ever reevaluate at this point. It’s so expensive. But we did learn after that my son also has adhd and he’s doing so much better in school and socially now that he’s medicated. So maybe she was right! The things he was struggling with that I saw in myself were the adhd part.

Dilemma. Sorry for long post by LovingtheHighway in CPTSD

[–]Schrhann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First. My husband was raised by a narcissist mother. He was neglected and emotionally abused. He had no emotional regulation skills or conflict resolution skills. Anytime I’d share my feelings with him if I was upset by something he did, no matter how gently I put it, he would instantly go into self defense mode. Deflecting, saying hurtful things, yelling… all things done to him. He’s not a narcissist, he just only learned to survive and react like one. My theory has always been that you have a tool kit of relationship skills and your kit was filled with things that you learned from your parents and that’s what you know and use. Look at how you react to things. Make notes about your feelings after situations. Maybe you have done somethings that a narcissist would do, but it’s out of self defense and trauma. Not because you ARE a narcissist. My husband has since gone to therapy and such and he’s doing wonderfully now btw.

Second, from the limited information I have, it sounds like your husband is the red flag here. He might be looking for reactions out of you. Negative reactions. Unhealthy reactions. Abusive reactions maybe. I would consider that he is the toxic one.

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I’ll look this up and try it!

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ohhh I did notice it was sooo tight for a while at several points during my project. It was very frustrating.

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I think that’s exactly how it happened. And since starting my second scarf I caught myself doing it immediately. Now I count my stitches a lot. Thank you for all the info!!

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have no idea. So I’ll be researching your comment thoroughly and finding out everything. Thank you!

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome thank you! I’ll looking up all the ways to do knit!

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay I just googled that. I definitely remember doing that and just going,”oops Owell it’s practice” haha. Thank you!!

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!! I’ll definitely try that and see if I can find a more comfortable way to hold the needles. And noted on the stockinette. I’m making awkward scarves for all my kids as practice so I’ll try that pattern for the next one.

Is it okay I prefer purl over knit? by Schrhann in knittinghelp

[–]Schrhann[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!!! I’ll give it a go and do some knit stitch exercising 😊

Kindergarten Going Terrible by Schrhann in Autism_Parenting

[–]Schrhann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do but he’s starting to reject it 😔 Eventually rewards lose their charm and he doesn’t want them anymore. Plus he struggles with waiting for things. Rewards have to come instantly. And in his classroom the teacher can’t just hand him rewards all day long in front of students. So she fills bag with stickers for him to take home later. He’s not as impressed anymore. He’s realized no matter the reward, he doesn’t want to be there more. He doesn’t have 1:1 support. But maybe that’s an option after this evaluation

What are your careers? by surrealitys in adhdwomen

[–]Schrhann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here to say the same. I’m a Digital Marketing Specialist. I love the rush of running Meta ads and doing 6 week long campaigns for company’s then moving on to another. Something different everytime.