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Jared lives at home with his mother Joyce and her partner Phyllis. He is 21 and works part-time at McDonalds. Jared is a self-described autodidact and his dream is to become a lexicographer and write dictionaries. Although he frequently demonstrates signs of Asperger’s syndrome, Jared vehemently refuses to see a therapist for an official diagnosis. His mother, Joyce, is worried about him and clearly out of her depth.
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Start: Joyce: We’re fine with you masturbating, Jared. This is not about the fact that you masturbate. The thing is...you can’t rack up those charges. We see them on the bill.
End: Jared: BABBLING CRETIN! (silence) I won’t kill you. (silence) I was joking. (silence) What’s wrong? (silence) See? I asked.
Baker, Annie. Body Awareness. Samuel French, 2009, pp. 10-14.
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