Stop making your mentally handicapped children obese! (Story) Just let me get this out of the way: this is not meant to be fat sympathy. Now, I'll get straight into it.  A friend of the family (very old woman) has two adult sons. One is moderately autistic, but not so much so that he can't work. He makes the money. Let's give them names, and call him Jordan, so things don't get confusing. The other son, let's call him Greg, is extremely mentally retarded. I don't mean that in the insulting form, I mean the literal definition of retarded. He sustained severe brain injury in childhood. He cannot speak.  Greg is extremely, disgustingly obese. And extremely is not an exaggeration. When I met him, his body alone was taking up a good portion of the room. Even if he wasn't retarded, he'd be too huge to walk. And I imagine he can't properly be cleaned because of it either. He's nearing the end of his life due to his size. He's so fat and sickly now that his day consists of people coming to the house to break their backs with a special device to lift him from his bed to his chair, so he can watch TV, and then back to his bed again. He is DYING. His weight is going to kill him. The other son, Jordan, is fat. However, unlike Greg, I hold Jordan more responsible. When I met Greg, I remember that the man reeked. He has sores on his legs that will not heal, most likely the beetus claiming another barge. I am upset at the mother in respects to Greg, not Jordan.  I am SO GODDAMN ANGRY with people who overfeed their disabled family members. Everyone acts like the mother is doing sUcH a GooD jOB. No she isn't. I don't give two McDicks if she's a frail old woman. Her son Greg is going to die and it is all her fault. But we aren't allowed to say that she's killing her son. In fact, I think I'm the only one who actually even sees the problem. I wonder if she made him so huge just so that he can't potentially move. Society is blind. What else is new?