Thoughts on tonite's vlog...
Long post warning
Asshat complains that the biggest pain about his very expensive golf cart is that there’s no Bluetooth… oh, boo hoo! One of the many pricey toys you have doesn’t have a certain feature.
Asa prompts Isaiah to say something that he supposedly said, conveniently off camera. Isaiah talks about how it’s interesting that people assume that whenever Abbie sees water, she thinks “I need to jump in there.” Sees it as the same thing as the pool. “Because she doesn’t. I don’t think she does. I mean, it’s like any typical person, like, when you see a lake, you know, it’s not the same as a pool. We can all register that. Abbie has the intelligence to understand that jumping in the pool is not the same as jumping in the river.”
Asshat mentions that the subject comes up a lot. Isaiah mentions ppl asking what if Abbie tries to hop off the boat. Both Asshat and Isaiah claim that Abbie knows the appropriate times to do things.
So, Abbie is aware and cognizant enough to know the difference between jumping in the pool at home vs other bodies of water, and she knows the appropriate times to do things… but yet, she doesn’t know what she’s saying when you ask her if she wants to do something or eat a certain food. She has difficulties differentiating between yes and no.
Isaiah said it’s like any typical person. Except, it isn’t. Abbie is not typical. There isn’t anything wrong with that. She just isn’t neurotypical and doesn’t think of things and ‘register’ things the way NT people do. She has virtually no self-control when it comes to food, what makes them think she has self-control in other areas?
Asshat said he responded to a comment which surprised him because ppl assume that Abbie’s intelligence is not high enough to know not to just throw herself off the side of a boat. He goes on to say that there were a ‘gazillion’ comments about it and so he wanted to address it.
He tries to justify things by saying that both he & P have grown up on boats as have their parents and that it just isn’t common to wear lifejackets. If it’s a kayak, dingy, or other small boat then yes, wear a lifejacket. “And this is not to contest what anybody’s saying, at all, about wearing a lifejacket. I just hope you would know, like, I did see a lot of comments saying ‘I think they would do what is safe’,… rambles on that sometimes we’ll see Abbie in a life jacket if the boat is going fast or if they’re in a situation where less attention is being paid to Abbie, then they’ll have her in the lifejacket.
Asshat continues to ramble on and basically it just sounds like a lot of damage control.
I’ll probably rant some more later on… lol
's mom could have started one for Isiah. 
You will be missed.
