Bless you for that Win! His mother is doing (has done) this young man no good by refusing to acknowledge his autism. That's a shame. So it's great that he has you.
--but I've discovered that when it comes to online help or info., everything seems to be geared toward kids on the Spectrum rather than adults. I guess they figure what's the point, we adults are to old to be helped.
It's a good thing she's no longer practicing Officer!! You know there are ailments we older people have that were not acknowledged back in the day. I have ADD, which I realize now was the reason I got poor grades for work habits in school. Back then we got two types of grades...one for the actual subject and one for work habits. My husband was dyslexic and didn't realize it until I told him shortly after we got together (we were in our mid 40s). He was always ashamed because he had a hard time with reading. But he was a very smart businessman. He could read the sentences in those memes with jumbled up letters better than anything.Since I first heard about the Spectrum, I've thought that I, my late brother, and late mother were all on it. The nearest kind of face-to-face support group for it is at least 2 hours away and when I asked my at-the-time doctor about how I might get diagnosed to see if I was indeed on the Spectrum, she responded with, "Why in the WORLD would you even want to know that?! It's not like there's any cure or help for adults on the Spectrum!" She's since quit practicing--was heard to say she was fed up with patients and medicine
