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Dean6805 says,

So do your parents just look the other way? I find it interesting that he goes this far off the deep end, and they just work up mileage bills for you.

Wench says,

They compromise by always being on edge. I don't really understand how they deal with it. They take minor precautions, hiding the caffeinated coffee, locking their bedroom door when they go out. But that's about it. He isn't anywhere near as bad as he was last summer or the summer before, but he's starting to show signs again. Last night as everyone was getting ready for bed, he told me he'd started to go through the over 700 recordings he's made since 2009 to rework and create new music. Today he emailed me six new songs to listen to.

Maybe under other circumstances that wouldn't raise alarm, but for us, it and many other little things are indicative of potentially another season. Both times when it was bad, it was directly related to drug use. Unfortunately, he hasn't come to the decision that drugs negatively affect him or those around him. He loves drugs. Keeping him away from them is difficult and my parents seem relieved that he's been doing better because he doesn't really have any restrictions about who he goes out with or where or for how long. I know it was absolutely exhausting to keep up with him, but I really don't understand the way they do things.

In the meantime, he's an absolute slob with zero responsibility around the house, so part of our job is to clean up after him. It's very frustrating. He'll be 22 this year. I was married and pregnant at 22. It's really hard to remind myself that he has serious issues and even more difficult to believe that those issues make it impossible for him to clean up after the eight cups of coffee he drinks every day. =\