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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother is 32 and still living at home. I think he is kind of halfway between "failure to launch" and mentally challenged. He was never diagnosed with anything, but he's one of those people who has no social skills whatsoever, has never kissed a girl (and never will), and has no friends. My guess is that he is on the autism spectrum, perhaps Aspergers ... the IQ test he took in elementary school showed an average IQ (probably around 100). But there must be something wrong with him, or so I have always told myself. Because of his lack of social skills, he finds it difficult to get or keep jobs. OTOH, my parents have definitely enabled him and he has never had to leave his comfort zone. I do worry that when they are gone he will become my problem. I am willing to allow him to live with us (assuming we have a house large enough to accommodate that) as long as he pulls his weight, meaning either paying rent or working for us in exchange for room and board.  He is very, very immature, but can also be really thoughtful sometimes, and he is a good uncle to my kids (which makes me wonder whether he *really* has no social skills or just needed to be allowed to sink or swim in order to grow up). It is a strange situation. I wish that we could figure out what went wrong, but he won't go get evaluated, so I guess we'll never know what, if anything, is wrong with him. [/quote]
My BIL is like this.  He launched in that he has a real job, can financially support himself, has a house but he also lacks social skills, has never really dated (and I don't see it happening) and is just immature.  His parents do enable him but I think there has to be more to it than that.  We, also will never know what is wrong with him (if anything).[/quote]

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