My Flashplayer isn't up to date enough for this. However, I saw this programme, but missed the first 15mins or so. I turned on when he was talking to his friend about Justin Beiber. I knew the programme was about a child with Aspergers and wrongly assumed it was about the other boy. Did they say the other boy had Aspergers too, at any point?
I actually felt really sorry for the wee boy. I don't think any 13yr old should be put under that sort of pressure. If he was at school all day and then came home and did his OU degree, when did he have time for play? His parents seemed loving and accepting that he might not be able to achieve the qualification, but I think they were wrong to apply for the course in the first place. I'm just starting out on an OU course at the moment. It's challenging for me and I don't have schoolwork to get on with and all the other stuff that's important for a teenager.
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiatic about." Charles Kingsley
25 Sep 2012, 3:57 pm
