Dotsie,
No, no support group, no social worker absolutely no help from any agency whatsoever. He did get help ONE time from the agency associated with the psychiatrist he was seeing. They paid for 1 summer socialization course. Then they called and said since he wasn't receiving any other services, they would no longer help. We made the decision to take him off meds once he started puberty because they were having a strange effect on him, falling asleep as soon as he came home from school, very fatigued. His teachers didn't notice any difference when we stopped the meds so I guess they weren't having that great of an effect. Unfortunately, the town we live in consistently underfunds the school dept, the mayor brags about gutting the Special Ed dept funding, IEP meetings are a nightmare.

Susan

Hello I had a myspace.com blog or space since the Autumn and I don't get weirdo's on my blog LOL. I get them on yahoo LOL.

Welcome proud, great screen anme. I hope you'll tell us more in the welcome forum.

I have been away from this site for awhile and am just catching up...

A couple of weeks ago, I had a phone call telling me to check out My Space. There was something on there that would be of great interest to me. So I did. I found my out of town college son had a site. He had posted way to much info about himself and posted pictures that did not meet with my approval. We went several rounds over this and he had since cancelled his site.

BUT in order for me to access his site, I had to create my own site. The only thing that I did was put my real email address and everything else was fake. I expected to be cancelled out right away but I wasn't. This is why I used my real email address. I wanted to see what would happen.

Now my reason for going on MySpace was to find my son but what about these creeps that create a fake id to go after unsuspecting kids. MySpace is not policing this. I am very concerned for the kids that are on there.

In looking for my son, I read some of these other sites and thought are these kids are crazy. They are giving way too much info and posting their pictures.

There is a radio station that posted a fake id...a girl 14 years old and they posted a picture. They got a few responses from men who thought they were communicating with a 14 year old girl and some of these responses were unbelievable.

As a parent, we can't be standing over them 24 hours and they are much too computer sauvey, so shouldn't these types of sites also take some responsibility as to what goes on???

Believe me if you don't police your own kids these sites won't. They couldn't care less who posts or what they post, the more tintalating the better. What we need is a law to make the owners of these trashy sites responsible but the web is to big for that and even the government doesn't want to be bothered nor do they have the man power. So we're on our own ladies to do the policing. Heaven help us!!!

[ May 13, 2006, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

I'm not sure the technology is there to police any site the way we'd hope. Just look at ebay! People get ripped off all the time and the thief is never caught. How can you really be sure the person signing up is who they claim they are? At the least, we can try to be the best parents possible and limit our childrens access to the internet.
peace,
Susan

I have to say there must be some gneralized patrol on myspace.com from some agencies, because that's how they stopped the Columbine anniversary attack in Kansas. A blurb was found on myspace.com and authorities were able to arrest the boys before anything happened.

I think a teenage member of myspace.com turned the information about the Kansas Colunbine plans in to the police.

smile

There's another one to check and that's www.facebook.com. Have you heard of that one? I think it's for older kids, like college age.