hello everyone. I have a 7 year old son with RAD. Hes been diagnosed for about 6 months. I have taken care of him and his older brother for about 2 1/2 years, there bio mother is a drug addict and both have no fathers to be heard of. I am not their foster parents or the adoptive mother. I started out as just the weekend baby sitter and one week turned into 2 months and 2 months turned into 6 month-temp guardianship and then that turned to court ordered guardianship and then after a year of that another year in CPS because the guardianship expired. well after all of that my son was diagnosed with RAD from the CPS ordered therapist. I went straight to google and looked up signs and symptoms of RAD and shit did that scare me! all this time his bio mom told us that he has ADHD. I've always seen "signs" like he would hit the dogs or break things and hes an AMAZING liar! he is the best "crazy liar" in the world! I never new that crazy lying was a real thing. For awhile i was in denial and just thought my son was going through a hard time since the bio mom was in and out of the picture with visitations but she hasn't been around in a while and hes still the same crazy boy i love so I've been trying some new behavior things and all i can say is this is some hard shit! I can show his all the love in the world and sometimes he accepts it and sometimes he looks at me like i'm nuts! but its all worth it when he lays in bed with me and says he loves me! i will take every bad day that he has and try and make sure he knows i'm here and fighting for him and love him in his worst and in his best.
where do i go from here?? I have no idea.....its only been 6ish months and i've been reading story's of 19 year old living happy healthy lives and then I've heard murders had RAD so my son will be a murder! all i do know for 100% is i need to stay off google late at night :)
thank you for listening and if anyone has any story's like mine please share i know im not alone in this but someways it feels like it