Siblings once you leave?

JW1212
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:57:07 +0000

yes i can relate completely… I am almost to the point where I am scared to leave my brother alone. I live in NJ and am going to college in PA (only about 90 min drive, but still).

My brother is 14 years old and is in 8th grade. He has severe ADHD, and has always had trouble making friends and socializing with people his own age. Next year, he is going to the high school that I currently attend, and although I enjoyed high school for the most part, I don’t think that he will be able to get by without a lot of trouble. A lot of the kids are nice and everyone gets along for the most part, but everyone messes around with each other and he doens’t take that too lightly. Also, there are always those few outcasts in high school who don’t socialize with anyone and I feel like that can be him.

He is also extremely self-conscious of his body, and since he takes medication for ADHD he is never hungry. He is 5’3 and weighs about 95 pounds. I took him to the gym with me a few times, and he can barely lift 8 pound dumbbells let alone do machines. It’s also hard to get his diet on track because he won’t eat much.

I am going to have some people i know look out for him and make sure he gets by okay, but that still doesn’t change the fact that I am the person he goes to when he has trouble or needs advice with something. My parents are unusually supportive of him, but that doesn’t change the fact that he will be lacking his big brother who he has come to for everything for the first 14 years of his life. We used to fight a lot, but over the past few years we’ve become really close, and I think that I have started to help him develop good habits and become more confident… I am just scared to even think what he might go through in high school