Got kicked out of an autistic adult client’s home today. He had already mentioned he’s “antisocial” and on the spectrum. As he was relating his situational problems my co-worker was making an empathetic like “oh” noise occasionally to demonstrate he was listening
Of course this person being autistic with almost no socializing experience didn’t understand social norms and interrupted saying “why are you making those noises? I don’t need your fake pity!” Before myself or my co-worker could explain that sometimes people will make a noise like “oh” or “uh huh” to demonstrate that they are listening to the person, especially when they are facing at a 45 degree angle due to the furniture’s position to where if they didn’t make the occasional acknowledgement noise, it could possibly come across that they were staring off into space and completely ignoring the person, he got too angry
Not only did he not understand social queues but he also went from 0-100 yelling to “shut up!” And “get out!”. Unfortunately for him, he had already dropped that he was considering suicide by cop, so the next step was to commit him to a psychiatric facility. If he is going to turn into the next mass murderer, you can’t say the mental health professionals didn’t try to stop it
Coulda been worse, heard a different co-worker got punched in the face earlier this week by a teenage client. People goin’ wild and out these days…
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