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Mom reports: It doesn’t matter if I ask Tommy to do something bad (clean off your floor) or something good (get your shoes on so we can go someplace fun), he ALWAYS answers my requests with “I’m thirsty.” It’s annoying but tolerable. What is really annoying is that he either doesn’t or pretends he can’t hear me lately. I repeat things three or four times and he still gives me a blank stare and a “what” or “huh” response. I think he just ignores me and hopes I will go away. Whenever I hear news stories about the police finding homes which have had a dead relative decomposing in their bed for months and years while other family members went on about life as if this was normal, I imagine that could be me. Tommy would just ignore my body and spend his time eating, sleeping and playing video games.