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You have to reflect on your child's potential, what you believe is the best method to unlock it, and what are the things you can abandon because they're not important in the moment (but maybe will need to be addressed again in the future).

Which means you really need to know your kid, OP.

I was able to do this with mine, who started off with a global developmental delay, has severe ADHD and autism, plus some learning disorders, as well as muscular tone and coordination issues, but who also has a high subsets of IQs when it comes to cognitive reasoning. He was a complex case.

For all of his childhood, his needs came before all of ours. We did SO MUCH for him, day in, day out. We tried to be fair to our other kids as well, which didn't leave a lot of time for parental needs. When he left for college (which was a miracle in itself), I felt a great burden of care lift from my shoulders. It's not that I wasn't worried about his life on campus, but I couldn't witness his mistakes and therefore they felt a lot more abstract, which did me a world of good.

You can't do everything, you need to triage and prioritize, and still look after yourself and other kids you may have.

Big hugs, OP.
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