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[quote=Anonymous]And it is killing me.
He is so smart but so hopelessly scattered, lazy, unmotivated, procrastinating, clueless, passive, deceitful, self-deluding, all the things.
The older he gets the worse it is. 
Everything is late
Everything is lost 
Everything is an excuse or someone else’s fault
Everything gets pushback
He completely lacks any internal structure whatsoever, it is like trying to carry water without a container, nothing you set up stays in place
He can’t even wear clothes that fit or are clean and he is 15 with a closet full of nice clothes but every day he is dressed like a clown—too big, too small, dirty, mismatched, untied, all at the same time. He won’t even shower unprompted. Every single day for years the same effing thing with no improvement and no learning.
I am watching all my hope for what I thought he could become drain away. 
His grades are all Bs and a couple of A-s in easy classes, mostly because of lateness and disorganization. 
And I myself cannot sit there with him every freaking night the same thing—I have my own job to hold onto and am the breadwinner. 
I have said all the things a million times and nothing sticks.
I have pleaded, screamed, cried, punished, rewarded, modeled, and am close to giving up.
If I spend my evenings helping him we will both drown. 
At this point I am close to letting him sink on his own, it’s a waste of my very limited time and energy trying to help someone who doesn’t want to learn.[/quote]

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