What Can I Do to Help My Son Get Back on The Right Path?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Rami had high hopes for her adopted disabled son when she sent him to a college near his biological family, but now the she's worried that his future may be in jeopardy. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious
0:09.4	XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Tammy, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	Hi. What can I help you with?
0:18.0	Well, I have that situation with my youngest son.
0:22.0	He is my fourth child he's adopted I adopted him at birth and it's an open adoption
0:29.4	so he's had kind of he's had contact with his bio family his whole life but has been minimal and pretty superficial.
0:40.0	And he just turned 18, but he has a disability, so he thought.
0:48.0	What disability is that?
0:50.0	He has a, he's on the spectrum and then he has a lot of anxiety depression
0:56.6	some OCD via some PTSD so he requires a lot of support not just
1:01.7	how is he functioning is he in school it does he requires a lot of support. How is he functioning?
1:03.0	Is he in school?
1:04.0	Does he have a job?
1:06.4	So he just started college and he's functioning pretty well, but with, like I said,
1:12.4	a lot of support from the accommodations from
1:14.6	counseling from tutors from us as his family his adoptive family so as long as he
1:19.7	has that scaffolding he can he does pretty well but if you remove any of it he falters pretty
1:24.5	significantly. So what happens after he finishes college? Well the goal is that we have him in all of these different programs to try to, you know, improve his functioning and help him get healthier in every way.
1:42.0	And then we're hoping that by the time he graduates
1:43.7	said he'll we're trying to hope hoping that as time progresses and he hopefully
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