Interview · moment 10 of 19
Group Home Residents' Sex Lives and Cutting Off Surrogate Families
from Bully Queen (With Robert Kelly) · #22
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5 minGuest
Bobby describes company-coordinated 'mixers' for disabled residents to have sex, jokes about Ray attending one, then gets reflective about his pattern of disconnecting completely from surrogate families throughout his life in foster care and juvie.
- 28:02Mentally challenged people have regular sex drives and want to have sex.
- 28:25Group homes coordinate mixers for residents with Down syndrome to have sex.
- 29:02Tim grew up with surrogate families in foster homes and juvenile jails.
- 29:20He could disconnect easily from these families and leave without talking to them again.
- 29:48Tim regrets not keeping in touch with people who helped him survive.
- 30:19He spent months away from family in juvenile jail and a year in rehab.
- 30:36None of his old surrogate families have reached out now that he's on TV.
- 31:37Tim's strategy for making friends at new schools was getting detention and selling weed.
- 32:06He'd smoke a joint with the coolest bad kids on his first or second day and become friends immediately.