These were duds:
But Happy New Year anyway!!
Update on my [son]: Making slow progress here and there. He goes out unaccompanied and now spends most of his mall hours at the SM Seaside. Taxi fare is P150 one way. It is about P200 from SM Cebu so we saved a little.
We've learned to let go but still stressed out when it is already dark and he is still not home. We have to rely on the kindness of strangers.
For the past couple of months [he] most often communicates only with hand gestures.
One time he came home on a habal-habal, a motorcycle that serves as taxi, and the driver said he picked him up at SM Seaside after noticing that other habal-habal drivers seemed to ignore him. [My son] was dressed up only in shirt, shorts and slippers. (When he wears his better clothing and shoes we find that he does not have any problem flagging a taxi.) According to the kind driver, [my son] only blurted Talisay when asked where he was going. The driver happened to be from Talisay also so he gave [my son] a ride home (for P150). Along the way [my son] was only making hand gestures to guide the driver. This he does also to taxi drivers according to a couple that I interviewed when I chanced on meeting them while waiting for [my son] to reach home.
Update on medication. Robert Whitaker has another article on madinamerica.com confirming the uselessness of anti-psychotic drugs such as [my son] is taking.
We are down to less than 1/2 of his olanzapine.
Note: As of September 25, 2016 I have edited out the name of my son to protect his privacy.
