Telling Friends

Mom: Well, I’m very up front maybe to a fault, but my attitude is I don’t want anyone to say "Boy, he’s acting a little strange" or "Why is he standing in line punching his mother like this, doesn’t she realize that he shouldn’t?" And that isn’t acceptable behavior but, if you have a kid who’s out of control you are used to such a range of behaviors that you’d be shocked at what you start considering is normal behavior. And so, I’m very up front about it. What I would recommend, I tell people as long as he gets his sleep, he needs eleven hours of sleep, he needs exercise everyday, you have to be calm with him because if you yell at him that could set off a rage. Who knows what people are saying behind my back but that’s the way I prefer to do it, just to be totally up front.

Cody: Actually a friend came up to the ambulance right as I was leaving and he was like, "Where’s Cody going?" I told them about how I went to the hospital. When I was leaving the hospital I think that my friends really helped me a lot.