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A friend of mines son wants to get his driver's license.

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Let him get a license and drive the family car
No way! The liability is way to high.
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He is 16 and is autistic. If he is interested in something he zones in on it to the point of going to the bathroom in his pants. If he isn't interested then after a few minutes he is done with it. Would you let him get a driver's license if he was your kid? Put him on your insurance and let him drive your car?
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy I have no idea if she’s had an accident. She has two kids. Doesn’t have to work because he’s an engineer and makes good money.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy No she lives in Washington state. She got angry over me not buying and handing a car over her and has not forgiven me for that. Seriously scared she would wreck it because she was easily distracted and the seizure disorder was something that can come back on her. I don’t think I did anything wrong in that decision and I don’t apologize for that.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy Yes she did, she got a bachelors in Physics Engineering and a Master’s in Physics. She is extremely smart in sciences and math but things like driving and other things seems very immature. Pretty sure she is high-functioning autistic because of that. And other things I caught when she was growing up, she would take jokes literally because she didn’t understand a lot of them. We didn’t know about what that was when she was born and growing up. Her second grade teacher told me that I needed to take her to the doctor and get her put on Ritalin. Told her it wasn’t going to happen because she had a seizure when she was 9 months old & I wouldn’t not be putting her on amphetamines. My friend has a boy with autism and his second-grade teacher told her the same thing. She was crying telling me that and I told her no not to do it and take him to the doctor. He was diagnosed with autism and she put him in a special school. He is much worse on the autism spectrum, not high-functioning but a good hearted boy, grown now. About 20 years younger than my daughter and his parents were fortunate that doctors were able to diagnose it then.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy She was working for a university in the office of the physics dept. for a couple of years. Seems like a lot of education not to use it in the field.