Can I Ask For Forgiveness: A Dot to Dot Conversation

"Mom, can I ask for forgiveness?" I didn't take that as a good sign.

Nicholas has been talking better in the last few weeks. However, the conversation is really fragmented. For example, here is how the last one started. It was like a verbal connect the dot game.

"Mom, I have an example."

"Of what?" I thought to myself.

"Mom, if I download something..."

Ummm.... where are we going with this...

"Mom, can I ask for forgiveness?"

I intentionally do not react, although my brain is firing off possibilities of what could have happened. Then I think back to the clues he gave me. An example. A download. Forgiveness.

The real problem kicks in now. Nick refuses to talk anymore.

I know anxiety precludes Nick from any decent form of conversation. So this is one where I'll have to be patient. It's like the TV mystery show that end with "to be continued" just at that precise moment of...

--to be continued!

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