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Originally Posted by Allegiance
Nice story, but the thread is "under 55 and getting into trouble in the villages."
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Here is another story, another neighbor in Ohio,has a young son, one who was born with autism who lives with them. He is now a young man, and has just finished all of the public schooling. I think Ryan is now 21. His mother is trained as a teacher, but had to retire in order to see that Ryan was safe when he came home from school. His father holds an executive position with one of the large food chains that have their headquarters in Ohio. Ryan can do many things but cannot hold a job. His parents will be his caregivers as long as they live.
And adding more to the story about Autism in general, it is a spectrum disorder, with many achieving high levels of education, who are very articulate and high functioning but still cannot hold jobs because they are emotionally stressed in an abnormal way with close contacts with others and demands placed on them they are unable to meet.
I kind of think that this relates to children living with their parents, here or anywhere. It is difficult and sometimes unfair to summarily pass judgment on others who appear to be quite bright and normal, but not being successful in the real world. Sometimes they are peddling as fast as they can.