My niece is very book smart, she graduated from high school. The problem is if a smoke alarm goes off...she will continue what she is doing even when the room was filling up with smoke... She is 2-3 yrs old in some areas and a 16 yr old in others.
She will never be able to live alone, where she is at now at 30 is probably where she will always be.
Her verbal skills are mostly parroting what others say.
She could hold down a number of jobs, however because she can not feel any pain until it is excruiating, she has been hurt while working and no one noticed the subtle signs, even though they were educated as what to watch for.
She has developed a lot of anger issues and has hurt her aunt and put her in the ER several times. They can't seem to figure out what causes them, and due to this she will be going to a group home. It is so sad, because 95% of the time she is so sweet, funny and loving....