kitchen table math, the sequel: Andrew

Sunday, March 4, 2007

So today Andrew has been Googling:

That can't be good.

Anonymous said...: When he starts googling Che Guevara, it's time for an intervention.; March 5, 2007 at 1:42 PM
Catherine Johnson said...: 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."; March 5, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Catherine Johnson said...: 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.; March 5, 2007 at 7:57 PM

kitchen table math, the sequel