Becky

You know, when he was little and, you know, I'm trying to teach him things and stuff like that.

And I, you know, the kids are supposed to go and clean up their room.

And, like, I would make him go, you know, put him in his room and say, okay, clean up your room.

And I'd come back, you know, an hour and a half later or whatever, and nothing had changed.

Nothing was cleaned up.

And I just thought, okay, he's just being a brat.

I'm just going to let him live like this.

Then if he wants to live in a messy room, let him live in a messy room.

And I was failing at that time to realize that he didn't have a clue what to do.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like...

What I'm finding out now is that I think he was suffering from anxiety or ADHD or something at that time, you know, when this was the start of it, because there was so much tension in our home.

And, um,

You know, it's like I didn't recognize that.

And it was over 40 years ago.

And that stuff wasn't recognized and brought to people's attention.

And it's like I had no idea.

You know, I just thought he was being a little brat.

No, not really.

No, there wasn't.