for those strange people who love rabbits

@DownMoreThanUp 27 tops is good for me. Crazy it got to 48 degrees 😮 ! that must have been unbearable. it gets into the mid 30s here and i hate it.

@Bunniekins Yes this is also why we build her her own home.We want her to be well looked after if something happens to us, so her life would not be totally wrecked us passing suddenly, or becoming unable to take care of her.

New things take much planning and effort if we do not want run into big dramas. For routine is everything and much time must be spend explaining to her when, and why, such is not followed.

@DownMoreThanUp you are good people xxx

@Bunniekins i give my wife (and also the kids accepting and loving her as they did,) the honour here. It was her loving heart that responded to the newspaper add. And my wife has surely done all the leg work, especially after i became so unwell soon after we adopted her.

(Truly the adoption process unlocked my suppressed trauma memories, and ended my up to then well hidden mental illness, for i understood my illness as a spiritual issue not mental. Which ended me up with a major mental break and a series of major psychoses 3 1/2 years later. (At the time i was working as a youth worker with troubled youth.))

As far as i'm concerned, apart of figuring her out, especially when she first came into our home, for she suffered from bad P.T.S.D related behaviours, i have done very little but enjoy her as our daughter.

For at first she kept constantly running away. Or hid terrified in the cabinet when the kids as much as had a fight, biting her non existing nails, and pulling her hair out by the hands full. She could not cry when hurt. Badly Gnashed her teeth when sleeping, and suffered from constant nightmares. She also always thinks she is naughty when unwell. And does not like people, or animals, who are loud or noisy.

An added problem was she knew only 20 words, and would use them randomly, not knowing when they were right. Her speech is still rather poor and often only those who know her well can understand what she is telling them.

She could also hit our other kids unexpectedly, and could easily throw a small child, or even a baby, of her lap! We had to watch her with eagles eyes. For when a child, or worse a baby, begins to cry, she can not handle the stress of seeing someone distressed, and she needs to be 'rescued' big time. (Even though she loves children and babies.)

Luckily i do have very good observational skills, and know the value of not concluding too quickly. So i always managed to figured out how best deal with her behavioural issues. This is how we got around her P.T.S.D problems in the end. Me figuring out what, or how things, upset her, which we then as a family unit would love out of her.

But otherwise i have done very little real physical work, apart of freely learning to love her like my own. She is a truly a beautiful person. So very, very specially made. And i'm ever so grateful and privileged that Jesus brought her into our lives and gave us her to love as our own.

Good morning @Bunniekins, hope you have a wonderful day 🩵

@DownMoreThanUp what a beautiful story of unconditional love. it is hard going and yet you both didnt give up. kudos to you and your wife. my middle son was diagnosed with autism at 2 1/2 childhood schizophrenia at 5 and epilepsy shortly afterwards. his schizophrenia really took off when he was 16 it was hell. he was aggressive towards his family and himself and this continued till he was 21 although even yesterday he told me his voices were telling him to do bad things to his carers. he wouldnt elaborate as he said they were very bad (i think he is scared about going into hospital). i love him but at times am scared of him he is 7 foot tall and big. he doesnt like children or loud dogs because they are unpredictable. i worry about him when i am no longer around.

@RebelliousAngel good morning hunny hope you have a fantastic friday xxx

Thanks @Bunniekins, rest day here today hopefully.

@Bunniekins Sorry to hear about your son hearing bad voices. Such is hard to deal with i know to be true. Yet i learned to understand that it is best is to keep those voices out in the open, if at all possible, and not hide them away, for then the rage inside they cause, pops up at the most unexpected times, and we end up hurting those we never meant to hurt.

This is how my wife ended up dealing with my evil voices.

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@DownMoreThanUp i agree about sharing the negative voices. i have ptsd and get triggered when my son starts up on this kind of talk. i would never act upon but it overwhelms me and in saying that i have a wonderful mental health nurse who comes to my rescue knows not to panic as i will not act upon as i take my meds and have put in safe guards so that everyone is safe.

the key is to talk to safe people. people who understand and be kind to yourself.