22q: The Challenges, The Obstacles, and The Coursge to Overcome

Chapter Two

Living with a child who has your disability is hard. There's challenges every day. Lately this year in 2024 life has been extremely difficult for us. Having a disability and struggling in school is a big struggle. You don't know what's going through in their head. If there's any problems they're going through it's hard to understand who they are. It's sad to see your kid struggle and there not much to do too help even though your doing the best you can trying to help them, but it doesn't feel like it's enough. All you can do though is your best no matter what.
     This year in 2023 has been so hard. He's been struggling to go to school. Struggling to even get him to go to school. It's so hard to even know what he's going through in life because he won't talk to you about it. He's so scared to go to school and we don't know why. What's going on in his head. Except the fact that he just want to stay home with me, my mom and dad because he loves and cares for us so much. He doesn't want my parents to die. He doesn't want me to get or ever have a boyfriend because he's all I need in his life. It's just weird.
     Some don't understand some do understand what we're going through. I'm tired and I am exhausted. I work 40 hours or more and then come home and I'm a single mom. I don't have it any other way though. I love my son so very much. I just wish I could help him more and get him to be happy about going to school again, but I can't get him there.