Our oldest son who joined us aged 8,left home when he was 18
He has a moderate learning disability and ADHD. He has bounced round supported housing,hostels,prisons,sofa surfed at girlfriends and had times when he was a rough sleeper. He was asked to leave his last supported housing in Oct. Since then he has been in hospital with Pneumonia twice and ended up living in a bin store of Tower Block. He has misused drugs for the last 4 years. He has always kept in touch -often to ask for money or meet at the wimpy. We became worried 3 weeks ago when he was discharged from hospital and made no contact with us ,his homeless support worker,his learning diaability worker.or his brother ( who lives 100miles away) on fri I answered my ohone at work . It was an outreach worker who had spotted our son and his girlfriend and persuaded him to go to the drug project . once there they persuaded him to go to one of the Crisis at Christmas centres... THE MIRACLE About 5 my doorbell goes. A strange man is on the doorstep holding a card and a Christmas Cacti. He said he was from the drugs project( about 2 miles away) and that our son wouldnt get into the taxi to go to Crisis centre becuase he had a present for his mum .This kind stranger said he would drop it into me on his way home. The card wished me a Happy Christmas and in it he said we were the best parents and he loved us .signed your no1 son....... the drugs support worker didnt need to work late on the 23rd. He did it because our son wanted to send us his love. Despite the chaos of his life and addictions deep down he respects and loves us . We can now relax and enjoy time with our 4th son and his new wife and then visit our second son and his family on the coast . For those of you struggling with angry teenagers or feeling rejected there is hope