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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the response.

He has always been pretty absentminded. Tell him to go upstairs and get something and he’ll forget what he was supposed to get.

Any of these things occasionally, on their own, would not be a big deal. But let me give you an example just from today.

- I went outside and saw he had left the car doors unlocked and the window down (we have asked him to lock the doors and took the window up probably 100 times. Yesterday when he came home we made him go back out and double check. I think he goes out there looking at his phone and doesn’t even remember what he’s supposed to do)

- I go to grab his laundry and there are wet towels on the floor and on the bed. Again, I’ve asked a million times not to do this.

- I told him this morning to remember his keys because I might not be here after school. He didn’t remember them. I asked him if he remembers me telling him to bring them and he said he had no memory of that.

So that is just today, before 5 pm. And this is literally every day. There are some common sense rules (lock car doors, don’t eat in certain rooms of the house) that he fails to follow a majority of the time. Not once a week. Every day.

We are exhausted because we have to nag him to do every little thing and point out what he is doing wrong constantly.  He is understandably tired of being nagged.

And yes, I understand the concept of natural consequences. If he forgets his keys he can’t get into the house. But then the dog doesn’t get let out. Our neighbor just had their car stolen. So the consequences of leaving car unlocked can be severe and don’t only affect him.

I just can’t figure out how much of this is normal and how much is a true inability to focus and hear instructions/directions. [/quote]

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