Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Let's play a game.

One month has gone by and the gas bill is overdue. There have been no accessed fees but you decide to berate your son in hearing distance of a dozen people about how it's hurting your credit score and how he needs to be more responsible. The bill is under your boyfriend's name, as is the apartment. Your son gets $500 a month as part of his disability income, and gives most of it to you to do his part in affording the luxury apartment. He should still have enough to pay for the utilities.

Three years of community college classes have gone by and your son has continually failed, and in the current semester has been banned for a continual GPA below 1.0. Your daughter suggests sending him to a new school for a fresh start but you've had enough and want no part in it, and in a phone call tell your son that it's his father's problem now. After your daughter decides to start arranging your son's transfer to this new school you decide that switching schools would be inconvenient for everyone involved and rule against it. Your daughter decides that she knows better and enrolls him anyway, and your son pays for his tuition using his first disability income check. He is doing very well at his new school, but you think he should be closer to home and want him back at his old school because it's closer.

You and your daughter are in an agreement that she will spend one year immersing herself in the performing arts as a way to prove that she is not talentless. Eight months after the start of the agreement she informs you that she has not been studying because she did not have money, and you ask her why she did not ask you for help. She states that she hates asking her parents for money but you brush her assumptions aside and offer to lend her money. You will track all your contributions to her education and when she lands a job she will pay you back everything she owes.

To enroll in the disability program at his new school, your son needs to take a form and have it filled out by the doctor who diagnosed his disability. He hands the form to you to have faxed and filled out by the doctor, and you hand it back to him telling him to give it to his doctor himself. He does not know the doctor's name nor has seen the doctor since he was a child. You've also forgotten the psychiatrist who first diagnosed your son as autistic.

So... which is most fucked up?

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