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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot even imagine dating someone like that where it would progress to marriage.  How did that happen? [/quote]

+1  Flipped over a full pot of hot soup to look at the bottom is not the same as "absentminded."  How does this fool function in the world?  And why would you choose to go through life with him at your side?[/quote]

This. Are you sure he isn't mentally challenged? Slow? Traumatic brain injury? Because anybody who regularly does something that stupid has got serious life skills problems. How has he not hit a pedestrian while driving because he didn't see them in the cross walk? or not burnt himself by draining a pot of spaghetti onto the counter? Or not eaten rat poison in a clearly marked poison box. I just don't get it.[/quote]

I chose him for many other reasons, one of which is that he's a good person at heart.  But also, I think judging someone for a handicap is kind of a shi*ty thing to do.  He's way smarter than me in other domains, just not in common sense.  The driving has gotten better, but yes it was very concerning at first.  He gets furious at people who walk into the road - probably because he has trouble noticing them and is afraid he will hit them.  He burns himself and breaks things all the time.  I usually intervene before he eats something he shouldn't eat.  I know it sounds crazy, and maybe it is.  But he's one of those people who excels in a very narrow area of his life, and everything else he just barely gets by.[/quote]

DOES he have a disability? (Or handicap, as you say?). I am judging him, but you haven't said he has a diagnosed disability. You just said he was "absentminded" and "impulsive" ... I'm both of those things as well, but I'd NEVER do what he did, and I wouldn't call it a disability. A personal flaw, perhaps.[/quote]

I consider it a disability of sorts, but he has no formal diagnosis and I don't think any label would actually fit him.[/quote]

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