yes but if you read the whole book you can see a long list of interventions & failed fixes
- getting him into rehab twice
- calling the cops on him ( theft of sister's phone)
- his dad accompanying him to that gym for ' troubled kids'
- the mum thinking Bible Class would help
- dad trying to help him to get jobs such as security linked to school dad was linked to
- pursuing the diagnosis.
that's just off the top of my head.
Like many of you, I
imagine that the sisters faced reality faster than the parents and- as often happens in these cases - parents sometimes split with one parent being more of a 'sucker' than the other. ( We heard that he's very bonded to Mom so maybe she's easier to manipulate?)
I can also imagine that over the years they keep chalking it down to an ' issue' - his weight, his autism, his addiction, his visual snow etc.
I also think other people did the same. ( At Monroe Tech or HS - can't recall exactly now - administrator said they'd had to put him into single sex classes at one point. Red flag. Maybe not a good idea to explain away or accommodate a boy who has serious issues with the opposite sex. Only org which seemed to take that seriously was WSU - sacked by December)
As Dr Brucato said this week - those facial injuries can just as easily be about rage towards opposite sex, or as
@girlhasnoname posted today a certain type of woman he resents. Personally I believe, if it hadn't been these victims , it would have been other young women on another date, whoever fits his schema
Not even getting into how accurate his diagnosis really was ( the autism)