Ja'Marr's Job is Pretty Simple

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(12-09-2024, 10:04 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: That may well be spot on?

I have a good friend who has a mildly autistic like 8 year old son. He has his (bad) days for sure. And I have a granddaughter with Cerebral Palsy. And I've come to learn that they're very, very routine oriented. If they get even slightly out of routine they start going downhill. 

Perhaps Burton needs a ton of structure and routine built into his practice and even gameday?

That's EXACTLY what I think Zac meant in that presser about getting the right people with him, etc.: it's not that he needs a handler or EA (what children/teens have in school, up here), but things need to be communicated to him the right way and he needs to be put in favourable situations in order to succeed: what works to motivate  and keep focus for Ja'marr, Higgins and Iosivas, is not the same for Burton.

(12-09-2024, 10:11 AM)Bengalbug Wrote: I’m not sure he is autistic, but he isn’t connecting.  Maybe battling depression.  He seems so unsure of himself, and lacks confidence.

On the spectrum is not the same as being full-out autistic: those with severe ADHD for example, are on the spectrum, but they'd never be classified as autistic (unless they actually are).

As the condition has garnered more study and information in the past 15-20 years or so, there is a lot to unpack and there are many more levels and a lot more to look at than simply, "you're autistic," or otherwise.

Being ADD myself, growing up, my mother enrolled me in many programs/day events to have me better understand and cope with being ADD: while they definitely didn't help me with my own growth and understanding (they didn't: even at 8 years old, I could see that the environment was for those with severe learning disabilities and the like and I EXCELLED as a student throughout my entire life), it made me aware at a young age that there are many different stages of those with learning disabilities and cognitive issues, thus what we know now about the autism spectrum, I lived back when I was a kid, even though I didn't fully grasp that at such a young age.

In college, it's easy to just fade into the background with issues like this, because there are SO MANY coaches and handlers on a college staff, but in the NFL, where anyone with a situation like this needs to hire a person privately or through the team for the same purpose, it can expose the, "afflicted," person a lot more and that would explain the issues that he has been having.

Again, not saying this is the case (I am not a doctor, medical professional, nor do I know Jermaine personally {obviously}), but if it came out that it was the case, I would not be surprised in the slightest.