<p>Sometimes, when people make a transition, they don’t want to bring their past with them. They want to get off of the reliance on drugs, which they may or may not actually need or at least feel they don’t, and they don’t want to be seen as different. The stresses of college and residual anxiety can also often have a large impact on those factors.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say, no one wants to take pills for the rest of their life, and no one wants their friends to know they need to, and when you’re independent suddenly… you try to decide for yourself.</p>
<p>In regards to onesonmom, I have a serious issue with your decision towards your son. That issue is that you’re assuming how roommates act, which is not your place and not accurate, as to be honest, you haven’t had a roommate for a very long time I’d imagine. Not doing their laundry? Every roommate I know of shares laundry duty in some capacity. Food and other things are often shared or agreements are made to share funds so more can be had, and numerous other factors exist. You’re revoking most of your role as a parent in the hopes of getting him to be independent but all that will do is re-associate how he views you, not how he views his life. A true change to his independent proficiency requires years of development on his own.</p>