Here’s The Real Reason Why These Y&R Kids are Getting Sick

Oh, no, something is wrong with Precious Connor on The Young and the Restless! His school first thought it was a learning difference, but they’ve decided it’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Pre-teen Crisis

So we hear. We barely saw Connor (Judah Mackey) struggling. Or suffering. We mostly heard Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) talk to Billy (Jason Thompson) about it, Adam (Mark Grossman) talk to Sally (Courtney Hope) about it, and Chelsea and Billy decide that Adam isn’t handling it right. A story where everybody just talks about what they should do rather than actually doing anything isn’t exactly riveting stuff. But it’s not the first such childhood illness we’ve seen in Genoa City.

Making Love Out of Nothing at All

Remember when Baby Dominic needed a bone marrow transplant? This was while Abby (Melissa Ordway, who has this beautiful family tradition) and Chance (Conner Floyd) were still married, and Devon (Bryton James) was slowly coming to the conclusion that he didn’t just want to be a sperm donor. The literal thing that he signed a contract to be.

We thought, when Devon was a perfect match for Dom, that this was a clever way of foreshadowing that Devon wasn’t Dom’s biological father, since parents, statistically, are rarely a match. But it wasn’t. So we waited to see what the point of the story might turn out to be. Nothing. The point turned out to be nothing.

Sounds of Silence

Remember when baby Aria was diagnosed as being deaf? Tessa (Cait Fairbanks) and Mariah (Camryn Grimes, who had some twin power recently) freaked out. Then Aria got cochlear implants and…we waited to see what the point of the story might turn out to be. Nothing. The point turned out to be nothing. We haven’t even heard much mentioned about Aria and/or her hearing for quite some time.

What’s New, Pussycat?

Now Connor has joined the peculiar line of Genoa City kids whose illnesses make their parents fret…without doing much of anything. It seems like a child’s crisis is thrown out randomly to give their parents something to discuss. Talk, not do. It’s an artificial crisis without consequences.

The real reason for all these sick tots isn’t something in the water in Genoa City, but, more likely, the writers are trying to come up with some drama to write for their moms and dads. What do you think? Sound off in the comments below.