Car Sales Confidential

Mental health challenges will often present themselves early on in family members—the autistic child who doesn’t speak when so-called normal kids his age are all already talking, doesn’t like to be touched, or is put off by sounds. In the case of Aspergers, the high-functioning individual can often be the smartest person in the room and yet have trouble changing a light bulb or engaging in the most basic kind of balanced back-and-forth conversation. In our story, the individual with Aspergers has been mismanaged from an early age by parents who rather than institutionalize him, or lock him up in the attic, kept him in the home, in the family, the results often devastating. Aspergers individuals will feel their own psychic pain and often self-medicate with various behaviors, drugs, and or alcohol. On the plus side of the condition, Aspergers persons often have at least one remarkable ability, such as being able to perform at a high level on an instrument with little or no training. In our story the character has a genius level of ability with anything to do with numbers. As a successful car salesman he had all the relevant numbers connected to a sale, such as the original list price, the financing charges, margins, all at the tip of a remarkable mind and therefore able to recite them to customers without having to reference any printed or computerized information. Each person will have a unique, but often more or less regular cycle between manic productivity and devastating clinical depression. As their caregiver you can look for signs to determine which phase of the cycle they’re in, many of which will be obvious. If you are someone responsible for the care of such an individual, although everything mentioned so far is reasonably accurate, know that there is room for optimism, that progress is possible even with difficult cases. In this story, our character is based on a real person with Aspergers. Over many years of managing his life, providing them with unconditional love, modeling the attitudes and behaviors they hoped to someday see in them, slowly but surely a radical transformation began taking place. Eventually displays of understanding and empathy began to emerge. In time joy began to replace the chronic negativity and depression, giving way to efforts to give back to those who had stood by them with acts of kindness and gifts. If you take on such a task, never underestimate the…Power of Love to make what seems impossible, possible.