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While I don't know, I suspect the boy's parents do not share your views. He is able to ride a tricycle and improving.

Neither of us knows. That's the difficult bit in topics like these. None of us is psychic and can tell what'll happen next. Will he be happy and healthy? Or will he have anger issues, meltdowns or exhibit destructive behavior to himself and surrounding loved ones due to neurological damage? We always hope for the best. I hope the boy recovers well. But there are no guarantees in life.

If you are a loving parent, all that crap you list is utterly irrelevant. I don't think I need to list in details why.

It sounds like you are speaking to someone who has actually experienced this and you have not. Trying to be civil here, I'll phrase it like this:

Try not to be so judgemental over a keyboard when you have no experience to speak from. Life is complicated.

The experience could easily run the other way around, you are doing the same thing you criticise.

But in a non judgemental way.

>Or will he have anger issues, meltdowns or exhibit destructive behavior to himself and surrounding loved ones due to neurological damage?

It's entirely possible for all of the above to occur even without any neurological damage. It wouldn't even be uncommon enough to point to neurological damage as an unambiguous cause.

That's all besides the point.

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