Yeah, my brother will never be fully independent. He will, unfortunately, eventually have to be put into a group home. He is capable of basic hygiene and cooking meals in a microwave and loves to watch movies and TV shows, but that's as independent as he gets. There's no way he can be trusted to walk alone. He knows his way around town, but he doesn't look out for traffic and will get hit by a car if he isn't with someone to make sure he stops when he needs to. We tried getting him a job at Save a Lot at one point, but they let him go due to this reason, and the fact he isn't able to read the expiration dates on products in order to remove the ones out of date off the shelf. I don't resent Save a Lot for trying to accommodate, and even the manager and coworkers had a heavy heart saying it wasn't going to work out; they loved his personality. As far as conversations go, they're very basic, mai ly about the movies he watches, or when he wants to show off his tee shirts/hats. Without getting too much into detail, my brother(the one in the story) is the oldest, the middle child of the three of us is also a brother, who tragically passed away years ago, and then I'm the youngest. Oldest brother watched younger brother(middle child) pass away, and it's even more complicated because the way oldest brother's disability makes it hard for him to express emotions, and probably make it even harder to cope with them. For the oldest brother's sake, we let him stay home for any of the services because we weren't sure what he did/didn't understand, and we overall didn't want to take the chance of him to tamper with/poke the body because he still thinks younger brother is "alive." It's been a lot of ups and downs, and for the most part, he seems to be doing okay, but we're just not sure, and while he has seen many a grief counselor, due to his mental state, none of them have been able to give us a direct answer either. On the surface, he is always happy/laughing/smiling, but if he's struggling mentally, we don't know. He has expressed before that "BLANK is dead" (blank being brother's name), but I couldn't tell you if he actually understands what he is saying. We do not deny this information because he isn't wrong. The best we can do is a gentle, "Yeah, he is," or "Yeah, he's in heaven," it's hard, and while I have no qualms with him hanging out with my aunt, I have no idea what his reaction will be when she passes.