[WATCH TALKING]
ERANA TYLER: Hi.
JASON TYLER: What's up?
ERANA TYLER: What you all in here doing?
ERANA TYLER: Trying to get this watch fixed.
ERANA TYLER: Well Jason, I just talked to the representative
at Doors.
So I wanted to give you an update on it.
I know you're anxious to go.
ERANA TYLER: Jason has been trying to get
into a program called Doors.
Doors is Department of Rehabilitation Services
program.
It's a program where kids learn independent skills.
They also learn how to go out and get jobs.
GRANNY: I'm about to--
ERANA TYLER: You going to work on that later.
GRANNY: Yeah. Now, I'll come back.
ERANA TYLER: So look, I talked to the lady at Doors
because I know you're bugging me like every single day.
And I had to submit another part to the application.
JASON TYLER: Oh my God.
ERANA TYLER: I know, it's been taken forever.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ERANA TYLER: Weeks and months, right?
But now that they got the information they need,
they're going to make a decision real soon, OK?
JASON TYLER: Really?
ERANA TYLER: What are you planning
on doing at the school, as far as learning?
JASON TYLER: I know I like computers and--
ERANA TYLER: Computers.
JASON TYLER: I mean, I want to work for Apple and--
ERANA TYLER: Oh, you want to work for Apple?
See this is news to me. JASON TYLER: You saying--
ERANA TYLER: I didn't know that.
JASON TYLER: You talking about you all acting--
you think I can't do business with y'all because I
have a visually impairment. ERANA TYLER: I never said that.
JASON TYLER: Well, he said that. ERANA TYLER: Who said that?
Your dad?
JASON TYLER: Yeah.
It makes me feel kind of, like, bad.
Like, everybody else is doing things on their own.
Like, just because I have a disability that don't mean
I can't do stuff.
We just got to do it differently.
If you're blind you have to do it differently.
You want me to do DJ school.
Like--
TRAINER: What's this I hear you got a love for music?
Is that real?
JASON TYLER: See, my father he wants me to do a DJ.
TRAINER: OK.
ERANA TYLER: So you feel like your dad is pressuring
you to go to DJ school? JASON TYLER: Yeah.
He's like forcing me to do it.
ERANA TYLER: Well, we don't want you
to be forced to do anything.
ERANA TYLER: Jason was really into music
when he was in like seven, eight, nine years old.
And I think his dad is looking at back when Jason was a child.
Jason's not a child anymore.
We can't just put Jason in things.
Jason now has a voice of his own.
He's 21, he's an adult.
JASON TYLER: I'm really not really feeling that.
I'm focused on life stuff.
ERANA TYLER: So if you don't want to do the DJ school
you don't have to.
We can let your dad know.
You can tell him.
JASON TYLER: Uh-uh.
You can tell him because he want to pressure me to do it.
ERANA TYLER: He's not going to pressure you to do it.
JASON TYLER: Yes he is.
ERANA TYLER: He just doesn't know
that you don't want to do it.
JASON TYLER: My mother really wants me to tell him.
I want her to do it because if I tell him
he's going to get an attitude.
ERANA TYLER: We're going to have a family dinner.
We're going to have Britney come over.
Hopefully, your brother is available
and he doesn't have to work.
And of course your Granny and your dad.
So when we have the family dinner,
I want to hear what your goals are.
ERANA TYLER: It's hard being a parent that has
a child with disability, especially
it's a child who cannot see.
You know, from the time he was born
it's been a challenge for us.
So Jason cannot do a lot of things on his own.
You know, it may appear that he can.
He can run social media.
He can bathe himself.
He can't really cook a meal for himself.
Jason can't go out if he need to go somewhere by himself.
So there's a lot of things that I, as a parent,
still have to do for Jason.
I still have to care for Jason.
He just wants to live a normal 21-year-old life.
And he's frustrated about that.
[WASHER BUZZER]
ERANA TYLER: Jason, you washing your clothes?
You gotta go check on your clothes now.
And once I hear back from Doors I'll let you know.
Because I know you ready to get out of here.
And I want you out of here too.
OK?
JASON TYLER: It's a must.
ERANA TYLER: It's a must?
JASON TYLER: I just hope and pray because I got to go.
ERANA TYLER: I hope and pray too.
We're going to be just as happy as you are, Jason.
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