Well, Shelia, apparently your bluntness has generated more of its own in kind. I take it you read the other posts that followed your own. I did not equate my experience with all children, I merely told my own story. If you saw it as a blanket statement, that's a perception problem of your own.
You make a very large assumption thinking that my son knows how I feel about his drug use - he doesn't. He DOES know how I feel about all the illegal activity that he has engaged in to SUPPORT that drug use.
Yes, he had motivation to get the GED, I was standing in the room serving as test monitor.
You "can see [me] being angry at his being consumed with drugs but the other baffles me" What baffles you? Could you make yourself clear? How much insight and understanding do you have concerning heroin use, injecting cocaine, methamphedamine and the others? From your naive comments, I suspect none.
You say, "I have two children that don't drink, nor do they do drugs nor have they ever done druges nor do they associate with people that do drugs..." As much as I have always liked you Shelia, you are a very foolish woman to make such remarks. I know plenty of mothers who have made such comments right up until the minute they were called down to the hospital morgue to identify their children - dead from an overdone. So don't be so damned smug. You might have to eat those words one day. I certainly hope not, but frankly when your eyes are NOT FOCUSED ON YOUR CHILDREN, you don't have the slightest idea WHAT they're doing. Did your parents know what you were doing with Thunder when you two weren't sitting at their dinner table or otherwise in their home?
A drug counselor told me once that the problems was always far, far worse than we thought it was, and took far, far longer to solve than we thought it was going to. He said if a kid admitted to "trying" pot one time, you could count on his having smoked a bushel of it.
I fear you are, or you will soon be living in a dream world and the only person who can change that is YOU.
Let's hear it from you other parents who were surprised to discover exactly what it was that YOUR perfect little guys and gals were up to.
The fact is that you were not there, you did not walk even an inch in my shoes, and you are therefore supremely unqualified to utter one peep in judgement of my comment. Frankly I think you're pumping sunshine up your own skirt Sheila. And it's mothers like you who are hurt the worst when the worst happens to their children. You'd be doing yourself a favor if you'd simply wake up and look around. Go to a drug rehab counselor and have a heart to heart and then come back and tell us about it.
One final point. Just before I found out about Robbie and his Heroin I said to my best friend, "Thank God, Robbie never got into drugs." It wasn't a week later I discovered that he and his girlfriend WERE into drugs, and his girlfriend was dead, by her own hand, hung by the neck with her own clothing in the Gwinette County, GA medical lock-down. Now, tell me all about your kids and what they don't do, never have done, never will do, and all that other hot air you shot at me.
