premie baby = immature?
CNN.com - Utah Scout feeling ‘good’ after ordeal - Jun 22, 2005
“We’ve also told him don’t talk to strangers. … When an ATV or horse came by, he got off the trail. … When they left, he got back on the trail.”
“His biggest fear, he told me, was someone would steal him,” she said.
Brennan’s uncle, Bob Hawkins, said his nephew may have been afraid to contact the strangers because they weren’t using the password his family had adopted.
The family explained that Brennan was born prematurely and he is socially immature as a result.
i seriously don’t know what to think about this. let’s go in order. umm, if you are lost for more than a DAY out in the “wilderness” why the hell would you hide from people passing on the trail? why would you think that they want to “steal” you? and if they do steal you, at least there’s a higher chance you’d get water and food than if you stayed just wandering in the wild.
second, the boy isn’t immature because he was a premie directly. he’s immature because his parents are too overprotective. he hid from strangers because he thought they’d steal him? he didn’t talk to people on the trail (mind you he’s been wandering and alone for 3-4 days) because they didn’t know the fucking password?
the article also says during a press conference at his house the kids “sat at his mother’s feet behind the microphones until the end of the news conference.” yeah, this is a socially awkward kid and now nothing will change that because his parents will not coddle him even more.
