When he was six, his mother remarried; fortunately his father accepted Eric as if he were his own son, so that "if it hadn't been brought up in the campaign material, nobody on Fengyuan Street would have ever known that he was his stepfather." Of course Mother Shyu was delighted at having picked the right guy, but, regrettably, this still couldn't improve little Eric's polio.
六歲時，母親改嫁，然而繼父卻視他如己出，「若不是競選文宣寫出來，豐原街上沒有人知道他爸爸是繼父」，徐媽媽慶幸自己沒有看錯人，但遺憾的是，阿雄的小兒麻痺卻無法彌補。