A lonely autistic boy ask "Would someone like me?"

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cyberdad
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04 Nov 2019, 6:51 pm

I think the mother is legitimate in wanting her son to have friends. His happiness is her happiness...



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04 Nov 2019, 6:55 pm

Of course she is.

Especially if he actually wants to make friends.



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04 Nov 2019, 10:52 pm

The original post reminds me of an earlier article about a mom setting up a date for her son. The mom was a bit of a matchmaker. She was at a grocery store and began a casual conversation about a puppy with some young college age girls which then became a type of introduction about her son. So in both cases, the mothers were interested in the well being of their sons and did something that was a little unusual. There is nothing wrong IMHO about this.

There's a lot to be said about moms. They are the nurturer, the provider, and in some cases, the matchmaker.

The latter became true as highlighted in a sweet but awkward exchange involving a San Antonio college student and her roommates.

Earlier this month, Charisma Valdez, a University of Texas at San Antonio student, tweeted about her encounter with a young man's mother at an H-E-B grocery store.

"If your name is Cody, you're 6'4, you go to UTSA, live at the Outpost, a sophomore, AND majoring in Global Affairs. Your mom truly is your wingman. She just showed my rommates and I your picture at HEB trying to find you a GF. lmao," Valdez tweeted on Dec. 3.

As of Tuesday, that tweet drew more than 62,000 likes and a little over 4,700 retweets.

"It all started off as just a normal conversation at H-E-B over a puppy," she said. "And it kind of just turned into something else."

According to her, Valdez and her roommates encountered the mom named Patricia just as strangers.

"We were pretty excited at first because we were talking about puppies, and then once she brought up her son and that whole conversation, we got pretty serious," Valdez said.

It turns out "wing-mom" got the result she wanted. Charisma and Patricia met again to talk about Codey, and it resulted in this:

She said the two hung out last week at an area shopping complex.


Matchmaker mom: Tweet goes viral after Texas woman sets up date for son


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29 Nov 2019, 12:47 am

EzraS wrote:
I'm not upset with jimmy m or cyberdad and not trying to admonish. All the same an intellectually disabled man is still a man. If that man is actually even ID.

Agreed. Thanks for saying this.


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