Genes Connected to Autism Active During Fetal Development (xpost from GD)

[Demeter]

3. Yep. Crushing, lifelong guardianship

My daughter is 31. She hasn't got the chance of independently living. She would be dead in a week, either by her own actions or by someone taking advantage of her. She has no sense of danger, no safety skills. She cannot use a stove or a knife safely, and frequently cuts holes in clothing and bedding with scissors.

She isn't going to graduate from college--she was only permitted a "certificate of completion" from high school, from a system which totally neglected her academics after 8th grade.

While the family as a whole has been doing whatever we can, we will NEVER, EVER be able to release her into the wild, so to speak.