Q 35) “The first big question to be answered by all the assessment of Ned that’s been going on is whether he has the functional ability to be employable on the open market, in a commercial, competitive business. If Peter…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Q34: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 34) “Vicki moved in today, and Ned couldn’t be happier. She will pal around with him three afternoons a week while I stay at KCTS and Cathy is at the Children’s Festival. It should work out fine, although I…
Q33: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 33) “I’ve heard far too many people tell my son and his parents how “cute” it is that he has a girlfriend. Ned’s a twenty-two-year-old man. He may be part of a cute couple, but there’s nothing cute about…
Q32: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 32) “Almost exactly a year ago I got a call from a producer at Edge Media, a video production company based in Atlanta. Edge had been commissioned by the publishers Holt, Rinehart, and Winston to produce a series of…
Q31: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 31) “Ned has one month more of state-sponsored, high school-organized, vocational training. After that he’s on his own, ready for whatever the world has to offer him, and what he has to offer it. I’m just not sure that…
Q30: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 30) “We learned today that there is a side benefit to Ned’s working in the Special Ed first grade classroom that doesn’t do much for him but apparently does a lot for others. The teacher told us that even…
Q29: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 29) “After the supermarket incident, Cathy and I decided it was high time Ned had an allowance, first so he can have his own money and stop seeing his parents as a never-ending source of cash, and second so…
Q28: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 28) “For the last two days I told Ned he was on his own doing his Wedgwood job. As far as he knew, he was. But I got in the car and watched him, following the bus, sneaking up…
Q27: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 27) “Five years ago, I gave a speech about Ned called The End of Cute. The premise was that when he was a little boy, people were drawn to him. He was talkative, friendly, and cute. But as…
Q26: Adventures in the Mainstream
Q 26) “For as long as I can remember, Ned has had in his hands, or very nearby, a selection of four-inch-tall posable familiars. Originally they were Star Wars characters and He-Men, play-things he liberated from big brother Ira’s Cardboard…
