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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I do think the op is open minded and reasonable, this whole post is so bizarre. Not everybody's smart. In my family, my mom is not that bright but hard working and did well in school; worked as a nurse her whole life. My dad is smart but joined the military and didn't finish college until I was also in college. I and my middle brother are more academic and took what OP is considering the expected route through college and grad school while my older brother went to cooking school, floated around for a bit, joined the military and ended up in private security and my younger sister did arts college and works for a designer. There are so many different paths in life! Even 15 yrs ago, when I was graduating high school, we weren't expected to know everything we wanted out of life. I think being responsible for oneself is the motivator many kids are missing. [/quote] OP. I agree there are tons of paths in life. But I also think we live in very different economic times today. You MUST get a job to support yourself, and our country is moving in a direction where our jobs are at the top and at the bottom (figuratively speaking) and the middle of the road jobs are not as prevalent. Not that they don't exist, but we are losing them. We have a huge amount of wealth, and a huge amount of poverty in our country, for that reason. That, on top of complications with my daughter being SN, make this a more complicated situation than your average situation. I think anyone who has a kid with SN will struggle with this when their kid is about to graduate from high school. How are they going to be successful? Support themselves? Be self sufficient? Its not a bizarre post at all, to me. It's what I am dealing with in my life right now. [/quote]
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