Thank you for (re) sharing this, Shelley. Your observations that "...people with thought disorders... are deeply empathic, kind, sensitive, and have a hidden brilliance" resonates very strongly with me. As you know well, we both have/had sons that fit that description very well. My Grant seemed to have an extra set of antennae that most of us lack that gave him sight in the darkness. I think he saw and felt so much that it just wore him down. He turned to drugs to quiet the signals, but that led to the sleeplessness and other traumas to which you referred that only made things worse. I wish I knew more when he was alive and was better able to meet him where he was, but we can only work with the tools we have and we did the best we could. Empathy, patience, love, and support. Thank you, again, for sharing this.
Thank you, Bill. I appreciate that validation and acknowledgment. I am grateful to have known Grant even just a little bit and could sense this too. It's so good that you share his specialness with us all. He's still with us and when you speak of him even more so.
Thank you for (re) sharing this, Shelley. Your observations that "...people with thought disorders... are deeply empathic, kind, sensitive, and have a hidden brilliance" resonates very strongly with me. As you know well, we both have/had sons that fit that description very well. My Grant seemed to have an extra set of antennae that most of us lack that gave him sight in the darkness. I think he saw and felt so much that it just wore him down. He turned to drugs to quiet the signals, but that led to the sleeplessness and other traumas to which you referred that only made things worse. I wish I knew more when he was alive and was better able to meet him where he was, but we can only work with the tools we have and we did the best we could. Empathy, patience, love, and support. Thank you, again, for sharing this.
Thank you, Bill. I appreciate that validation and acknowledgment. I am grateful to have known Grant even just a little bit and could sense this too. It's so good that you share his specialness with us all. He's still with us and when you speak of him even more so.