A 13-year-old with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days living on NYC subway trains last month. Francisco Hernandez Jr. says he never left the subway system that whole time, subsisting on newsstand snack food and bottled water. He'd run away to avoid punishment at home after getting in trouble at school, but lost his sense of time. "He was prepared, he said, to remain in the subway system forever."
Runaway Lets Subway Do the Running For Him
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Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman, a really good middle-grade adventure novel, is about a boy who lives in the subway system. Life imitates art!
Jeez. His mom kept all the signs they made to try to find him?
Sounds like the kid isn't the only one who has problems.
quote, "No one spoke to him. Asked if he saw any larger meaning in that, he said, “Nobody really cares about the world and about people.”"
Sounds like his mom was worried that it might happen again and kept them just in case.
It will happen again. Lady knows her kid.
@Anonymous #3: Sounds like a sharp kid, if lacking a bit in sense of proportion.
All he needs now is a set of tricked out roller skates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(film)
Reminds me of an old song: M.T.A. by The Kingston Trio
Why is that problematic?
@ Michael Smith - "Batman Batman, this is Robin, do you read me?"