The rest of that post just makes me sad.
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(Now, he'll spend time with my parents, possibly because they made a huge effort when he was little to spend time with him and take interest in his activities. If temperament or proximity make that difficult, don't be surprised when a teen doesn't play that game).
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It sounds like they're the only family members who tried to make the effort.
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Here is the issue we've run into with our seventeen year old. We have to meet him halfway on things, because in a year he will be able to move out and choose how much time he spends here. Now, I think I'll have him home for another year or two while he gets through a year of trade school and starts his career, but if we make life too difficult for him here, his brain is still immature enough to be stupid - move out without enough money and get into trouble. Plus we want him to feel like he has agency.
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"Thanks to us treating him like a second-class citizen his whole life, we now have to walk on eggshells around him so his ill-equipped little brain no make stupidthinky."
Ugh.