Rainman Redux

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I wanted a character for a series I'm writing. I wanted someone interesting and capable of adding an impulse to the plots. So an AUTISTIC SAVANT is the one.

Grover Dauphin sleeps on the street, pisses his pants, and knows everything worth knowing about people. An unethical psychopath ambulance chaser takes Grover in and exploits the boy's gift against everyone. Cuz Grover literally knows where all the gold and bodies are buried. And like Cassandra, no one believes his nonsense.

 

[Serafina1210]

Grover Dauphin sleeps on the street, pisses his pants, and knows everything worth knowing about people.

Unless he's a toddler, he won't piss his pants. Not unless he's too impaired to be a savant. He'll be fastidious about excretion and everything else too.

He may know everything about what people do, but he won't know what or how they think.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Unless he's a toddler, he won't piss his pants. Not unless he's too impaired to be a savant. He'll be fastidious about excretion and everything else too.

He may know everything about what people do, but he won't know what or how they think.

PILOT and FREYA gave me permission to make the facts up how I want, so the pissy pants stay! And he bites the heads off kittens.

 

[Serafina1210]

PILOT and FREYA gave me permission to make the facts up how I want, so the pissy pants stay! And he bites the heads off kittens.

All your autistic readers will be pissing on you in the comments. Maybe I'll join them.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

All your autistic readers will be pissing on you in the comments. Maybe I'll join them.

PILOT sez accuracy and particulars don't matter. Maybe Grover can have Elvis' baby.

 

[Serafina1210]

PILOT sez accuracy and particulars don't matter. Maybe Grover can have Elvis' baby.

I don't know much about Pilot or why you're always tangling with him. I do know a lot about autism. If you ever want to know about it, feel free to ask.

As for Elvis's baby, sounds cool to me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I don't know much about Pilot or why you're always tangling with him. I do know a lot about autism. If you ever want to know about it, feel free to ask.

As for Elvis's baby, sounds cool to me.

PILOTS posts look like the sideshows of a 3rd rate circus, hard to miss.

 

[jacktar48]

I wanted a character for a series I'm writing. I wanted someone interesting and capable of adding an impulse to the plots. So an AUTISTIC SAVANT is the one.

Grover Dauphin sleeps on the street, pisses his pants, and knows everything worth knowing about people. An unethical psychopath ambulance chaser takes Grover in and exploits the boy's gift against everyone. Cuz Grover literally knows where all the gold and bodies are buried. And like Cassandra, no one believes his nonsense.

Interesting idea. I was just about to think of it myself...

If you're willing to go sci-fi, the guy can be clairvoyant or telepathic or whatever you like. And maybe when he goes into a trance state he becomes incontinent.

But he looks and smells so bad, everyone just assumes he's nuts even though his predictions invariably turn out to be correct.

Kind of like a number of Biblical prophets...

I assume the shylock ends up getting it in the ass (perhaps literally) because he ignores Grover's predictions regarding himself.

Actually I was on a ship with a guy like this. He could do all the weird math shit instantly in his head, beat anybody in chess in a few moves, etc., but could NOT be trained to sweep the deck. Just couldn't do it. Also he had some sort of phobia about the shower...his roommate and a couple of other guys scrubbed him down once or twice with laundry soap and a bristle brush but it didn't help much.

 

[TxRad]

All your autistic readers will be pissing on you in the comments. Maybe I'll join them.

Save your time and effort. JBJ is the AH's pet troll and loves to see the reactions when he tries to jerk the chains.

He talks a big game but just started writing recently and try's to play the guru type or try's to reinvent the writing wheel. That where Pilot comes in. And me too for that matter.

It's best to ignore him if you haven't got a newspaper handy to swat him on the nose with.

 

[PayDay]

Unless he's a toddler, he won't piss his pants. Not unless he's too impaired to be a savant. He'll be fastidious about excretion and everything else too.

He may know everything about what people do, but he won't know what or how they think.

"If you've met one autistic, then you've met one autistic."

 

[slyc_willie]

Unless he's a toddler, he won't piss his pants. Not unless he's too impaired to be a savant. He'll be fastidious about excretion and everything else too.

He may know everything about what people do, but he won't know what or how they think.

My wife sees a lot of patients on the so-called autism scale. There are so many variations for the disorders blanketed by the label that anyone could pretty much write any sort of character, call him or her "autistic," and technically be correct.

She has two kids on her schedule, both teenagers, who often piss themselves in order to get out of therapy. Yeah, she loves her job.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Save your time and effort. JBJ is the AH's pet troll and loves to see the reactions when he tries to jerk the chains.

He talks a big game but just started writing recently and try's to play the guru type or try's to reinvent the writing wheel. That where Pilot comes in. And me too for that matter.

It's best to ignore him if you haven't got a newspaper handy to swat him on the nose with.

1970 was when I started. I admit you and PILOT sell plenty down at the flea market. And you presuppose you clowns are better than when you began.

TEX plays the part of the bell captain in that hotel commercial on tv.

 

[Serafina1210]

My wife sees a lot of patients on the so-called autism scale. There are so many variations for the disorders blanketed by the label that anyone could pretty much write any sort of character, call him or her "autistic," and technically be correct.

She has two kids on her schedule, both teenagers, who often piss themselves in order to get out of therapy. Yeah, she loves her job.

I should read before I post. I know a fair number of autistic kids, none of whom have incontinence problems. But it turns out to be easy to find online postings from parents of autistic kids, even teenagers, who struggle with that.

So my bad, and I give JBJ my blessing if he wants Grover to piss his pants. I wouldn't do it myself, but it ain't my story.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I should read before I post. I know a fair number of autistic kids, none of whom have incontinence problems. But it turns out to be easy to find online postings from parents of autistic kids, even teenagers, who struggle with that.

So my bad, and I give JBJ my blessing if he wants Grover to piss his pants. I wouldn't do it myself, but it ain't my story.

I discovered that many autistic kids have pervasive developmental delays, that is, theyre immature compared to other kids. I've always thought bedwetters lagged behind their peers.

Actually Grovers problem is he doesn't prophesy when he oughta, and blabbers when he oughta shut up.

 

[jacktar48]

I discovered that many autistic kids have pervasive developmental delays, that is, theyre immature compared to other kids. I've always thought bedwetters lagged behind their peers.

Actually Grovers problem is he doesn't prophesy when he oughta, and blabbers when he oughta shut up.

I still like this idea. I hope you write the story.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I still like this idea. I hope you write the story.

I plan to. Collecting my thoughts and standing my ducks in a row.