Gabriel Mizrahi

This is not the real world.

Zero.

Didn't understand me.

So she goes on.

Add to all this the dissolution of activities for young men that are not sports.

And you have a generation of isolated boys on computers.

My son has always struggled socially.

I recently heard an interview with the man with the highest IQ and it reminded me so much of my son.

The way he spoke and how he struggled as a young man.

What advice do you have for a mom who's desperate to not see a young man's potential be wasted?

How do I help him to not give up and languish in social isolation and loneliness?

Signed, finding the right tack to help my son find his way back when he's on his own track.

Totally agree, Jordan.

The other person who might be helpful for your son—I guess I'm just going to fall on the sword all day today—

is a therapist.

So many of the things you shared with us from the science fair to the not getting into college to the ongoing social alienation, the loneliness, those are all traumas.

They would be traumas for anyone, but they're unique traumas for a neurodivergent child.

And it would just be so great if he could talk to somebody, ideally somebody who specializes in neurodivergent patients, so he could work through that.

and have someone else in his corner who can help him learn to understand himself and meet adversity and hopefully work with his mind and the world in a new way.

I also think it could be the best way to help your son not give up and languish in loneliness, as you put it.