In that video, Desmond manages to look both like a grandma and a kid. Is he playing with dolls? Girls that age don't play with dolls any more.
Eh, girls that age might still have a few dolls hanging around that they might still like a lot, even if they no longer play with them as they did just a few years ago. It's obvious that she's trying to keep him looking as young as possible now though.
The way he talks is so jarring though. He sounds like he never interacts with hardly anyone unless it's for a gig or his mum. Obviously autism presents differently for many people but I don't think that's it. The "dress like sexy cougar housewife" combined with the baby talk really is weird. Your description is spot-on.
I recall a picture posted here of the floor in their apartment kitchen where it is very filthy and unkept looking. There is like wires poking out of the wall and linoleum peeling on the floor which is filthy. Does anyone still have this foto?
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Why is this woman allowed to keep children. The system yet again amazes me.
I'll be a little more forgiving to a kitchen floor getting dirty, especially for people who wear shoes in the house. It's pretty easy for a linoelium floor to look nasty just cuz it's old. And yeah, I didn't mean they live somewhere super nice, but I've seen far worse in NYC and they even have a pretty big living room (see the recent Christmas photos). That said, they look to have a cleaner house compared to most people posted on this site, esp the people with children.
...It was mentioned in the Schofield thread that people couldn't understand why J&B hadn't been removed from their CLEARLY disgusting living situation and someone gave good insight. Basically, the CPS workers have a checklist of shit they have to answer, and it's all YES or NO. The stringency depends on state. For example, one state might consider a few packets of kool-aid and a jar of mayo in otherwise empty fridge a "YES" when the questionnaire asks "Is there food in the home?" Because by that states laws, if there's items of food (ANY edible items), they have to answer "yes". In a state I used to live in, a "bed for a child" was defined as anything from an actual bed to a pile of towels on the floor, no pillow required.
J&B were obviously physically dirty, as was their home, while Desmond is clean, the house certainly isn't "filthy" even if it might not be perfect or even "good". What I'm getting at is that I'd imagine NYC is overloaded with some more overt, obvious cases of truly horrible shit that needs police (and medical) attention immediately. So, it'd be a easier for a kid like Desmond to fall through the cracks. (Quite literally, with how thin the poor kid is) That and a lot of people don't take anything from the internet seriously (since it's hard to know when they should), so a bunch of calls from randos who don't like something they saw online could probably be written off as "homophobia" "harassment" "haterz" etc
The flipside is there are also just shitty CPS employees sometimes. If you've seen that "Trials of Gabriel Fernandez" doc, it's fucking gut wrenching to see how many people tried their best to help that poor child and all the authorities they were supposed to rely on failed them miserably.
Then of course, there's the fact that sometimes CPS announces they are coming, sometimes they don't. Either way, I'm sure from the first visit, Desmond has been taught to "put himself together" and be presentable in the way his mum wants him to be. Just like an interview, or a photoshoot, or whatever other thing she's having him do.
The only toys or "favourite things" he really talked about with much depth were the cars. And the that weird, twitchy eye he got when they fell and he picked them up. I hate this.
