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Originally Posted by seclark
as far as I know, he's never actually had any type of studies done that would explain what type of disability he has. can't read or write(except his name). I have to set his microwave every day at 60:00. I have different color pieces of tape on his tv remote buttons so he can go back and forth between the only to channels he watches. take him to doctors, monitor his medicines, etc. he gets confused very easily.
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What two channels does he watch?
And interesting story, by the way. With older folks like that, one wonders how diagnosis and treatment differed in their youth from today's world.
In my grandmother's family, two of the eight (or nine) kids had mental issues. I never met them, but looking at old photos one clearly had Down's Syndrome, but the other sounds like your uncle. He looked pretty normal but just had a very low level of functioning. The two of them lived together in the family's log cabin until they died sometime in the 60s or 70s, and I think other siblings would just keep an eye on them from a distance since they all lived in the vicinity.