news.ycombinator.com• Sep 27, 2021• 1 min read
Ask HN: How can I help my son with Epilepsy and Intellectual DisabilitySaw this post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25512071 and that motivated me to post about our situation.My son is 23 years old. He has completed AA degree in liberal arts at a local community college. He has complex-partial epilepsy and intellectual disability. In my personal opinion, he is borderline for both conditions : his epilepsy is controlled by medications and his intellectual capacity is quite borderline - he will be on top of the list of disabled people, but will find himself struggling to compete with regular people. Social skills are bad with strangers, but otherwise he is quite communicative.His interests are technology - he can not program, I do not think he could write a for loop, but he can narrate the in-depth progression of technology of all iPhones, Androids, Samsungs and what not. Could he describe all features? Maybe not, but he knows quite a bit that he could be groomed into a salesman (except his current inability to connect to people which may be needed