Found Safe CA - Connerjack Oswalt, 16, 29 Sept 2019, *Autistic*

[azure]

Realize he's an adult, and can therefore make his own decisions etc, but since all the articles mentioned he had autism, I wondered (and worried) about whether he was high functioning? Low functioning? somewhere in between? Realize you sometimes have no control in moving (perhaps his parents had a job relocation) but wondered if their son would have the ability to find them since they moved to another state. There wasn't any more articles (that I found) to verify that they actually reunited.
If the severity of his autism makes him a fragile member of society, I hope that he was given resources so that moving forward, he is able to get a high school diploma and/or no longer be homeless if he chose not to go home to his parents.

I'm no expert, but I think the fact that he was able to keep himself alive for 2.5 years while homeless (at times in a cold climate) would indicate that he's pretty high-functioning? That doesn't speak to his mental health, though.

 

[Lusitana]

I think he's high-functioning. He was able to communicate well enough with LE and advocating for himself. Which doesn't mean that he won't need support.