I'm gonna write out a long post here, so bare with me, mostly because I need to, as this situation is pushing me over the edge.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Adam ... sorry if this is too personal, but is your uncle ok? I mean, are there learning issues or anything like that? I'm just wondering where he's going to live after you and your dad manage to break free and whether he's going to get any support ... this may be furthest from your mind just now, but it does begin to sound as if he may need some sort of assistance.
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Not at all and no, I don't think he's ok in the head.
I'm no doctor, but I believe he has
Asperger syndrome.
Some of the main clues for it include
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Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody, and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition, but are not required for diagnosis.[7]
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Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject:
Brighton and hove football club/football in general.
I wouldn't like to guess, but he has probably in excess of 500 books on football
He has about 200+ large file folders stuffed with news paper clippings about brighton and hove football club
He has, or HAD (before the garage mysteriously caught fire) hundreds of brighton/hove football club memorabilia items (Badges, flags, posters, photos, news paper clippings)
He has (we believe) two secure storage containers in the town centre full of junk, most of it burnt, or water damaged and they're both full of rubbish like what's
in our garage.
one-sided verbosity (It means that a person's conversations tend to be more like monologues (often about obsessive interests) instead of dialogues.)
When he talks to people, it's always the same type of conversation, it's always about his take away job, his "partner's" family or an accident he's witnessed while on the road.
He's like an old war veteran who keeps reliving the past, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the same stories from him in 5 years.
physical clumsiness
There's so many examples of this, I don't even know where to start.
He decides to spray the small shed in our garden with preservative
When he's finished, there's more preservative on the ground and surrounding buildings than there is on the shed.
He breaks and/or loses pretty much anything he touches
He's broken two internal door handles, he's lost three sets of backdoor keys, three garage keys, four shed keys and two front door keys.
He's broken his brand new LCD TV because he's so clumsy, but claims "someone broke my TV".
He broke my microwave, my digital camera, lost my ADSL2 router
He steals people's tolietries (Three of my dad's soaps went "missing" in four weeks)
He's spilt or splashed printer ink in the garage at least 10 times (No, I'm not kidding)
He moved his computer into the lounge once, as the roof was leaking in the garage, he spilt ink on both door mats and on the lounge carpet.
Honestly the list just goes on and on, heh.