Chapter 8 - What Silas believed was going to happen
Dr. Ellison spoke with Silas carefully.
Not repeatedly.
No interrogation.
The picture became clearer.
Millicent had been talking about:
“a special school”
for almost a month.
At first:
“Maybe you should spend time somewhere kids learn independence.”
Then:
“There are places where children learn to sleep without calling Dad.”
Then the week of the park:
“You may visit one soon.”
Silas asked:
“Does Dad come?”
“No.”
“Can I go home at night?”
“That defeats the point.”
“Do I have to?”
“Adults decide treatment.”
That sentence made me furious.
Because it contained an abstract truth misused completely.
Adults do make medical decisions for young children.
But not any adult.
Not secretly.
Not by copying a parent’s signature.
Silas told Dr. Ellison:
“Grandma said I was sick because I want Dad.”
He had not been diagnosed as sick.
He had normal grief-related anxiety that had improved over two years.
Dr. Ellison documented:
No clinical recommendation for residential placement.
No history of dangerous aggression.
No school expulsion.
No self-harm.
No serious conduct disorder.
Millicent knew that?
She had attended two family sessions early in treatment.
In one, Dr. Ellison explicitly said:
“I do not see an indication for intensive placement.”
There.
My mother had heard.
She later claimed Silas had worsened.
If so, why did she not tell me or Dr. Ellison?
Because she expected me to disagree.
May you like
Again.
Consent bypassed because outcome felt obvious to the person acting.
