Re: At what point do we say "Enough"?

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> This one bothers me even more than the kid ones, probably because of the 
> parents perspective.  I look at that video and realize that those 
> parents live with the reality that in all likelihood their son will 
> outlive them, and it must tear them up to worry/fear for how he will be 
> cared for when they are gone.

Yeah.  And while my own son -- the autistic one -- seems to be further 
along at age 5 than this guy is at age 29, my wife and I *are* open to the 
possibility that our boy might -- might -- be dependent on us even when he 
reaches adulthood.  We just don't know.  (We do know that my brother, at 
least, turns 33 next month and collects a disability benefit and lives 
with my parents etc., and sometimes we wonder what will happen to *him* 
when my parents are gone, which hopefully won't be for a long time.)  (I 
hasten to add that my brother isn't mentally challenged, per se; he's more 
at the other end of the spectrum, really smart but possibly undiagnosed 
Asperger-esque, never finished high school because he couldn't handle P.E. 
and the idiot vice-principal wouldn't let him skip it, etc., etc.)

> We don't deserve the freedom we complain they are taking from us.

Ouch.  What a way to put it.

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