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#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Dec 30, 2010 [SPOILER]

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wow - nice puzzle and very poignant story. i like the stuffed animals peeking out of the boxes.

nice line drawings

I know nothing of PWS but I do know a lot about OCD and hoarding. Would it work for her to personally hand a stuffed animal over to a needy child? Then it would be going to someone she knew (or at least, have met) who she could "trust" with her stuffy.

Thanks, Linda and Bugaboo.

Wendy, that's a great idea, and we have tried that. We are a very loving, giving, generous, charitable family. But Karie's conscience is wired-stuck at the 2-year-old level. You know what it would be like to take a favorite toy from a 2-year-old. :-) Everything she hangs onto is a favorite or special to her in some way.

She has never been able to share willingly with anyone, even those she loves. It's just the way her brain is wired. I have even offered to pay her a big lump sum for her extra stuff that she doesn't need anymore, but she just can't part with them. According to her, each thing she has saved has some sentimental value. I told her I would put it all in storage and she could pay the monthly storage fee, but since she is living on Social Security Disability Income (just enough for the bare basics), that's not a realistic option.

I have warned her that one of these days, I'm going to go through it all and decide for her what to keep and what to get rid of. And of course that makes her furious. But she's been warned, and I will do it, and she will "ground" me for a month - refuse visits and phone calls, threaten to go AWOL, or try to get even with me somehow (that really scares me because of the lack of conscience thing)... until she needs me to intervene when she has a problem with her staff. :-) The joys of coping with PWS!

Ha, as soon as I read the description, I had to check and make sure my mother didn't create the puzzle...

:-D, Holly.

if it's the sentimentality of the items and the memories that each evokes, maybe she would let you take a picture of each non-essential item. That way the pictures can be uploaded to a flickr account (or similar site) and she has easy access to "memory lane". Seems like that would bring her much greater joy than not getting to have the memories because the stuff is just stored in a box. The trick, I guess, is that the picture-taking idea and the getting rid of the item idea aren't mutually exclusive. she could like the first and still not want the follow-through of the second.

or, if she doesn't have internet access, she could make a simple scrapbook? printing photos might cost less than the lump sum you offered her in the first place.

Not much fun. I don't see the story.

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