Sunday, March 4, 2007
Andrew
So today Andrew has been Googling:
That can't be good.
- Hugo Chavez
- BMWs
That can't be good.
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They do what they do.
Thinking about schools and peers and parent-child attachments....I came across one of my favorite posts .
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When he starts googling Che Guevara, it's time for an intervention.
You know, I've been joking about this, but it really does concern me.
Autistic people as a general rule lack common sense - I'm going to feel terrible if I'm insulting readers who haven't written comments.
I'm trying to think of a non-hurtful way to say this....
The obsession level, the living-in-your-own-little-world quality......it worries me that Andrew may at some point manage to be able to live in the world (which is a horrific thing to say, I know)---and then what?
When we visited my best friend Cindy, who told me her son Ryan might want to work for the U.N., I said, "Well that's good, because when Andrew chains himself to the gates he'll have a friend inside."
That's a terrible thing to say, and I hope everyone here knows I don't mean it. If Andrew can "make it out," so to speak, that's going to be a dream come true.
But when I try to imagine what Andrew would be like as a "marginal adult," which is realistically what he would be, I worry.
Of course it doesn't pay to worry because the worries you have are never the worries you get.
I know that from long experience.
I need to worry about getting him some dental work before I worry about getting him unchained from the U.N.
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