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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 82621" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Best friend's son is 29 with Aspergers. Still struggling, on Disability, married and she is feeling like she has to do a lot of the organizing. He's brilliant, but unable to hold a job. He is too literal, can't multi-task, tends to moralize to the boss about unfairnesses he sees in the workplace. His IQ is 160. I think most Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids always need help. He and wife lived with parents for a while, now he's got a place of his own in Low Income Housing. parent feel he'd have to have assisted living if not for wife, or if wife leaves him. He MET his wife on the internet. She lived abroad. He blew a Disability check and left his life behind him to meet her (parents were seething). They married there--he doesn't have a lot of common sense, but is bright enough to have learned fluent Spanish. In all, his life is all right, but he constantly talks about how he's a screw up. He won't accept his diagnosis or get help and spends a lot of time playing videogames. He is very obsessed with the Bible, and is a good person. I'd be proud to have him as my son. I just wouldn't judge him by social norms as he is very different--actually has a better heart than most "typical" people with very little interest in monetary things. I've known him since he was three years old and misdiagnosed with ADHD. He also had a wrong bipolar and epilepsy diagnosis. But kids now are dxd. better and get more interventions. Maybe that will make a difference. I hope so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 82621, member: 1550"] Best friend's son is 29 with Aspergers. Still struggling, on Disability, married and she is feeling like she has to do a lot of the organizing. He's brilliant, but unable to hold a job. He is too literal, can't multi-task, tends to moralize to the boss about unfairnesses he sees in the workplace. His IQ is 160. I think most Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) kids always need help. He and wife lived with parents for a while, now he's got a place of his own in Low Income Housing. parent feel he'd have to have assisted living if not for wife, or if wife leaves him. He MET his wife on the internet. She lived abroad. He blew a Disability check and left his life behind him to meet her (parents were seething). They married there--he doesn't have a lot of common sense, but is bright enough to have learned fluent Spanish. In all, his life is all right, but he constantly talks about how he's a screw up. He won't accept his diagnosis or get help and spends a lot of time playing videogames. He is very obsessed with the Bible, and is a good person. I'd be proud to have him as my son. I just wouldn't judge him by social norms as he is very different--actually has a better heart than most "typical" people with very little interest in monetary things. I've known him since he was three years old and misdiagnosed with ADHD. He also had a wrong bipolar and epilepsy diagnosis. But kids now are dxd. better and get more interventions. Maybe that will make a difference. I hope so. [/QUOTE]
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