Mothers of mentally ill sons often become obsessive and overprotective, and it sounds like that was her problem. She’d apparently been protecting him for years, even before the divorce (2009), and after that, he became her whole life. She was trying to get him into some special engineering program, and she planned to follow him to the school and live near him.
I think she simply refused to admit the degree of his illness, and once he was out of school, she had no more reality checks at all.
That post is going off the rails on a crazy train. You are a victim of the media.
“Mothers of mentally ill sons often become obsessive and overprotective, and it sounds like that was her problem. “
That is very true! The biggest problem was when she introduced that mentally disturbed young man in the business of guns and shooting with guns. She thought him how to shoot with guns!
You have absolutely nothing to base that on!! What a bizarre, out of place diagnosis.
“Mothers of mentally ill sons often become obsessive and overprotective, and it sounds like that was her problem. “
That is very true! The biggest problem was when she introduced that mentally disturbed young man in the business of guns and shooting with guns. She was teaching him how to shoot with guns!
its very sad and he took so many innocents in his sickness
I tutor kids one-on-one. There are moms whose kids are headed for a world of trouble but who will NOT see it. “I know he seems rude, but he has been very tired.” (Naw, he has a rude mouth; any parents on first?).
agree!!!
This was an extreme case of helicopter parenting and smother love. She probably removed him from public school because she didn’t like hearing that he was crazy as a bedbug and should be institutionalized.
The father who got himself a misteress and walked away from his troubled son is just as much to blame.
Home schooling a kid with Aspergers doesn't make a Mom "overprotective", nor does getting an Asperger kid into a special engineering program and planning to live near the kid. Sounds to me like a Mom who wants to help her special needs kid.
"I think she simply refused to admit the degree of his illness,...
You just said that she was overprotective of his illness. Now you claim that refused to admit the degree of his illness. I would think that one who is protective of an illness, does so because they admit, at least to themselves that the illness is serious enough to need her assistance.
.. and once he was out of school, she had no more reality checks at all.
Here's a reality check for you. You are making things up without knowing the facts, basing your opinion on your own perceptions of expected behavior.
Now if you can demonstrate that this kid had a history of violence, and that the mother had a history of trying to sweep the violence under the rug, then that would be a valid point.
But you didn't demonstrate that.