disney-super-mom
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This is a very weird question I suppose, but it is a concern of mine regarding my DS8.
My DS8 is autistic, although I would consider him high functioning. However, he takes comments and requests VERY literally. For example, most teachers tell their students to be quiet in class, do your work, don't talk, etc. Well, one day I was reading with a group of girls in my son's class, and they asked me why he was so quiet. They told me he never talks. So later on, when my DS got home from school, I asked him why he doesn't talk to his classmates, and he said, "Because my teacher said we shouldn't talk." Now obviously the other kids in his class don't take the teacher's request meaning literally NEVER talk in class. They still quietly whisper and converse with each other. My DS, on the other hand.....well, you already know what I'm saying.
Anyway, last night my 6 year old nephew told my DS to call 911 (my nephew has a phone in his room), and so Ryan (my son) proceeds to pick up the phone and dial 911, without giving it a second thought.
So after getting in a bit of a fight with my brother and sis-in-law about who's kid did what, and who's child is responsible for the 911 call, I started to get a larger and scarier thought about what could happen in the future, and what kind of accountability Ryan would have if someone told him to break some kind of law of something.
For example, when Ryan is older and in highschool, what if some drug dealer asked Ryan to give a package to some kid, get $30 from the kid, and then bring the money back. Ryan wouldn't have any idea what he was doing or why. He would just be doing what his "friend" asked him to do. (Just so you know, Ryan thinks anyone who talks to him and is nice to him is his friend, even if he just met the person.) Anyway, lets say Ryan is caught by the police while doing this, and he is charged with a crime.
Do you understand what I'm asking? I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but I'm just afraid of how people could take advantage of Ryan's disability. Would Ryan be accountable? What would or could happen to him if someone told him to do something that was against the law?
Or, what if some kid told Ryan to go stand out in the street and see if that car coming down the road will stop before it hits him? Ryan would walk right out into the middle of that road and stand there without even questioning it.
Or, what if some kid told Ryan to take this *vitamin* because it will make him feel good and strong, except the vitamin is LSD or something?
I am seriously upset about that 911 call Ryan was told to make, and now I'm thinking this is just the very beginning of horrible things to come.
My DS8 is autistic, although I would consider him high functioning. However, he takes comments and requests VERY literally. For example, most teachers tell their students to be quiet in class, do your work, don't talk, etc. Well, one day I was reading with a group of girls in my son's class, and they asked me why he was so quiet. They told me he never talks. So later on, when my DS got home from school, I asked him why he doesn't talk to his classmates, and he said, "Because my teacher said we shouldn't talk." Now obviously the other kids in his class don't take the teacher's request meaning literally NEVER talk in class. They still quietly whisper and converse with each other. My DS, on the other hand.....well, you already know what I'm saying.
Anyway, last night my 6 year old nephew told my DS to call 911 (my nephew has a phone in his room), and so Ryan (my son) proceeds to pick up the phone and dial 911, without giving it a second thought.
So after getting in a bit of a fight with my brother and sis-in-law about who's kid did what, and who's child is responsible for the 911 call, I started to get a larger and scarier thought about what could happen in the future, and what kind of accountability Ryan would have if someone told him to break some kind of law of something.
For example, when Ryan is older and in highschool, what if some drug dealer asked Ryan to give a package to some kid, get $30 from the kid, and then bring the money back. Ryan wouldn't have any idea what he was doing or why. He would just be doing what his "friend" asked him to do. (Just so you know, Ryan thinks anyone who talks to him and is nice to him is his friend, even if he just met the person.) Anyway, lets say Ryan is caught by the police while doing this, and he is charged with a crime.
Do you understand what I'm asking? I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but I'm just afraid of how people could take advantage of Ryan's disability. Would Ryan be accountable? What would or could happen to him if someone told him to do something that was against the law?
Or, what if some kid told Ryan to go stand out in the street and see if that car coming down the road will stop before it hits him? Ryan would walk right out into the middle of that road and stand there without even questioning it.
Or, what if some kid told Ryan to take this *vitamin* because it will make him feel good and strong, except the vitamin is LSD or something?
I am seriously upset about that 911 call Ryan was told to make, and now I'm thinking this is just the very beginning of horrible things to come.
