Beautiful Young Minds - Jos's relationship with his parents

[yukisucks00]

Wht

[CHARLIECouture]

"They need me to..access the internet, that sort of thing" Ahhh I have so much respect for this guy!!

[jin37uk]

I went to school with him for 7 years, I respect his intelligence although I definitely don't respect him as a person.

[cannibalhorse2007]

Whilst that was cold and must be horrible for his parents to watch he is correct.

I myself have aspergers (but to nowhere near that extent) and just like anyone else if I make a mistake socially and I pick up on it I'll try not to do it again.

Have you also considered he's just an overachiever? I'm sure if people told you day in day out you were good at maths/science you'd come to believe it too.

[Abdullah2009]

Not if your modest in your heart, which he's not, so he's arrogant by nature really, very hard to fight that especially with a communication disorder.

Good luck to you by the way, I really hope you do well in whatever your actions may be.

[BarriosGroupie]

I don't think he's arrogant, just ruthless when it comes to the truth

[sedeki]

Stop intentionally acting as robots

[willng85]

man this guy is interesting!

[doctorgsja]

There are some clips of him when he was 11 earlier in the programme-he seemed happier, but still had a very focused mind. So at one stage he did have emotional engagement of some sort with his parents, but I think his enthusiasm for relationships has been eroded, probably due to the excessive bullying and lack of understanding he's been shown through his teenage years, where a lack of conformity leads to rejection. It's the lack of understanding of AS that 'normal' people have that's really sad.

[fabastonmartinoneill]

How the hell can you make a rash comment like this??

Do you actually know whether he was bullied during his teenage years or not??

'Excessive bullying' - hmm, i really think that you have no idea wat ur talking about

[Applet2]

Not sad: different. People with autism need to understand things logically and that's what he's trying to do. I understand relationships as being that which, as he states, are generated through spending lots of time with people (eg. parents) and in the case of parents, a hormonal interaction that starts with birth, involves oxytocin, and therefore makes everything else make sense.

[vbb99]

retard....literally

[xXxRav3rRawrBabyxXx]

@vbb99 For what reason is he a 'retard'? he's evidently what could be considered 'highly intelligent' mathematically//logically.

[Niniman1909]

it's sad that he can never have a proper relationship with anyone cause he acts like a nobhead.

[doctorgsja]

Very sad. Asperger's does make it difficult for the affected person to interact even with his/her parents.