LJ Idol Season 8 Week 2 - Yesterday Screaming at You from God Knows Where

[walkertxkitty]

o/` "Congratulations, heart.
You've committed the ultimate crime.
At least we know you're still beating, but apparently you can't keep time.
How can we expect to live with the truth under our mattresses,
suffocating the souls we were trying to save? o/`

-- Kinives to the Brain performed by DESA

Comments

[tfcocs]

Wow---I had no idea that you were going through this! Let me know if I can help in any way---

PS: The MIB3 and MIB4 guys sound like really good people.

[walkertxkitty]

The actual incident happened last year, right after my first trip down there with Dee. Since then, we've gotten into a routine. When Lix is here, I do home school her. She's very intelligent but emotionally still about eleven or twelve rather than sixteen and prone to some unacceptable behaviors (doesn't like clothes and will take them off and go naked regardless of the circumstances at home, for instance). Sometimes Dee's brother takes her and then he schools her with the math and science that Fox or I cannot.

The MIB we have now are good ones. The first couple they sent out here were really just not suited for the job. These guys are almost like family and since their superior retired to be replaced by someone with a less conservative view of things, they're even allowed in the house now. Before they had to use the back door and then only to visit Dee's office.

[basric]

Well done, this is why I hate people especially those with a little power ans try to make it into a lot.

[walkertxkitty]

The public schools, here at least, really aren't very kind to the older students with problems. The school is small and she could have taken the time to read Lix's file.

No matter, home schooling is what I did and now Lix is slowly catching up to her peers emotionally.

[joeymichaels]

Great true story - and I love that you wrung a punchline out at the end. Fabulous.

[walkertxkitty]

It wasn't so much a punchline as grasping at straws and it was actually the solution. Lix is physically sixteen and mentally genius, but her emotional age is closer to a ten or twelve year old. Since she can't mesh well with her age equivalent peers, we find it easier to let the therapist handle that and deal with her educational needs ourselves. That girl can do higher math that sometimes has her engineer brother boggling.

[kenakeri]

"Mrs. Johnson, I don't think---"

"Obviously..."

I'm still giggling over that, but the whole situation must have been horrible.

I don't understand how your living situation could be considered illegal, and I shudder to think what happens to families that don't have your kind of back up. MIB 3 was great in that exchange.

[walkertxkitty]

Florida just passed a law stating that cohabitation by two people of the same sex who are unmarried, regardless of whether or not they're involved, is illegal. I'm certain they don't take a kind view of polyamory either but we're lucky enough that we can justify the arrangement without people digging too far.

Even if we couldn't, it's none of their business. Lix is loved, cared for, well fed, and her needs are seen to. We're far more stable than the 'standard' family setting in which she was brought up. Even Dee says so.

[walkertxkitty]

There are many, many articles on the subject. Some of our more sensible legislators are trying to get the law repealed but it does exist

[dewhitton]

It makes me angry that there are kids out there who seriously need help, but because they come from a "normal" home - ie, mum & dad - no one cares about them and the dysfuntional lives they live.

[walkertxkitty]

I don't understand it either. Our lives may not be traditional arrangements but she's well cared for, loved, and her medical and psychological and emotional needs are seen to.

I can't do anything about those others, but at least I could do something for her. Dee's Ma and I don't like each other at all; she's a perfectionist and anything which diminishes the family reputation --- from things like this to Dee taking up with me --- is garbage to her.