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“I love being independent,” King explains. “Everyone needs a little help sometimes. I don’t know anyone who knows everything. But just because people need a little bit of help doesn’t mean they can’t be independent.”
What’s unique in King’s case is that his legal guardians — his parents — also want to terminate their court-ordered stewardship.
Not because they don’t want to continue living with him or because they don’t want to be responsible for him. And not because they don’t love him.
Susie and Herbert King, who are in their mid-60s, have a great relationship with Ryan. The three of them obsess about episodes of “Scandal,” they go on vacations together, and they split the cooking, shopping and cleaning in their immaculately decorated Northwest D.C. home.
But they also want to give him what all parents want for their children: independence, self-determination and control over his fate.