Reply #16: I went through a stage similar to this when I was 13-14..... [View All]

[RandomKoolzip]

My parents were, uh, hippies, for want of a better term, and were quite permissive. Right around puberty hitting, I ached for some discipline and order in my life, and joined the Boy Scouts. I also harbored hopes for a time to go into the seminary (that I didn't believe in a god was a bit of a stumbling block, but....) I think that I felt like such an outcast that I was looking for fellow outcasts and I ended up scraping the bottom of the barrel, socially. I longed to be part of a group....maybe your son is feeling the same way.

After having to deal with all the unpleasantness involved in scouting and after trying LSD for the first time myself, I abandoned those aspirations toot de sweet, if you know what I'm sayin'.

JMO, YMMV.