Romeru
This was the first time someone said in this entire story that Riley wasn’t meant to be a monster in fact she told him he was supposed to be the opposite of that he even thought he was meant to be a monster and it would make since right with all the things he’s done with everything that happened in the past and with being the he is it would give it all reason he was a monster and this is what monsters do but now someone tells him he wasn’t supposed to be that way if he wasn’t meant to be a monster then what was the reason why is he the way he is why did his mother kill him it would all make sense if it was because he was meant to be this way but someone’s telling him different that he wasn’t supposed to be a this way i know Riley’s built different but really feel like this is going to mess with his head a bit
Somebody finally said it. I’ve mentioned it before but in addition to ASD Riley almost certainly has C-PTSD. Childhood PTSD is quite distinct from other variants because if the base trauma happens before one is verbal then inexorably the trauma builds because me cannot communicate what has happened.