I have a pretty high bar for requiring parents to helicopter parent their kids, but this sounds like a good example where it really should be required. Either

I have a pretty high bar for requiring parents to helicopter parent their kids, but this sounds like a good example where it really should be required. Either the article is overblowing his autism, or else the parent should have understood his autism required a lot more observation of his behavior. I'm not a parent so I don't know how modern parents handle dealing with the internet with their teenagers, but I certainly know that it is a Thing that you have to worry about. It would seem very obvious to me that if you have an autistic kid who is getting on the internet that you'd need to be worrying about everything that they're doing. I'm sure he was getting groomed by trolls in internet chat rooms, that he thought were "cool", and this is a good case of where the parent really needs to be more concerned about what friends their kid is hanging out with, and they need to not just plug the kid into the internet as a babysitter.