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[quote=Anonymous]I have two male adults in my life who are possible grownup versions of your son.

One is autistic and continues his special interest in money/luxury brands in a pretty socially acceptable way by earning a decent salary and having a travel-heavy job that he uses to accumulate massive amounts of miles and points. He will only go on vacations if he can use his miles and points and is very clever about how he uses credit cards for bonuses. He is very weird about used cars, mid-range hotels in the kind of random places you have to stay for a family wedding or a sports tournament, restaurants that are local/holes in the wall, etc. Visible signs of status comfort him because a lot of the subtleties of socioeconomic standing and socializing are mysterious to him. He also enjoys the “collecting” aspect that another PP mentioned.

The other relative was fixated on luxury/money to the point that he had a compulsion to steal from teachers at a very young age, would hoard cash “found” in his house or relatives’ houses, and would steal cash gifts from siblings’ piggy banks. He channeled his need to be luxury and wealth-adjacent by having a client-facing job in a design field serving rich clients, so he gets to spend other people’s money. [/quote]

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