He's smart, he's talented, he's got one of the largest trivial knowledge bases I know of. He can process the implications of information and correlate it with all the dinky little facts that connect to it in five minutes, shorter if it's not a major shock.
He has one friend: me.
As a kid he was allowed to get away with throwing rocks at the neighbor boy, and when the neighbor boy threw some sand back, his mother just marched right on over and had a little talk at the neighbor boy's mother, and the neighbor boy got grounded for a year. When he got old enough that he otherwise would have known better, every time he did anything, no matter how innocent, every time he opened his mouth in company, every time he just plain opened his mouth, he got squashed and suppressed.
Now that he has a friend, his parents have discussed it and have decided that I am corrupting their sweet innocent little boy. Never mind that he was showing me the raunchy internet sites. Never mind that their darling angel child is eighteen.
It just makes me sick.
Doesn't this kid's mother want her precious baby to reach his full mental and social potential? Doesn't she see what a smart kid she has? Has she considered putting him on medication to moderate the raging Attention Defecit Disorder that's playing hell with his schoolwork? Does she realize that squashing a kid that smart to that degree is likely to backfire on her in any number of unpleasant and newsworthy ways? Her eldest son is a recovering Satanist with multiple personalities, a few of them sociopathic and dangerous. The younger son, the one who's less equipped to defend himself, is prone to different problems.
