Today, as a support worker, I spent 45 minutes making various attempts to calm a violent autistic kid. Just as soon as I was sure the crisis was over, he beat me as hard as he could with the "Things I Can Do When I'm Mad" book I'd given him. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went to my job as an aide for first-grade students. I went home with a swollen face after my student punched me because I was, "making the timer go too fast" and he wanted more iPad time. FML
Today, a patient, who is normally pretty chill, was being quite difficult for my workmates. They were whinging about him and I defended him, he's normally a sweet guy so something must be upsetting him. I went to chat with him, he punched me and called a useless a**hole. FML
Today, I took my 6 year-old to work. A normally docile child, she chased me around with her toy - beating me with it while all my colleagues watched - not stopping despite me requesting her to. When she finally lost said toy, she threw a huge tantrum. Guess who's banned from my office. FML
Today, I saw a kid throwing a tantrum in a supermarket. Thinking it was a matter of lack of discipline, I waited for the kid’s mother to come out of the bathroom to tell her how naughty her son was being. I then got to watch her beat her son to the point of unconsciousness. FML
Today, I had to pick my son up from school after he beat the crap out of another student. The words that made him go nuts were apparently, "You mad, bro?" FML
Today, my child was refusing to leave the playground. I had to pry her, screaming and crying, from the monkey bars. I then realized I had been assaulting someone else's kid. FML
Today, I was babysitting a four year-old. He was mad and began hitting me. I told him to use his words not his fists when he's mad. He then began telling me how much he hated me, and that I should go die and never come back. FML
Today, my father-in law-shared his opinion that autistic kids should be beaten until they act normal. He saw fit to share this while my autistic son was having a meltdown because my father-in-law came to the house without warning, and my son violently hates visitors without prior warning. FML
Today, I was asked to take care of my 3 year-old little brother. After 15 minutes of him screaming and me trying to keep him entertained, he started throwing his toy cars at me. He hit me in the mouth, and I started to bleed. My parents yelled at me for "not controlling him." FML
Today, a punk-looking college kid was making fun of my mentally handicapped son. Out of anger, I punched him in the face. I got handcuffed and thrown into a police car. The kid stood there laughing and pointing at me. FML
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Top comments
Meixpr 12
How unfortunate. That, and a tad bit ironic. Perhaps he gave the book a good use after all.
Badab1ng 5
Shoulda given him the book "how to make sweet passionate love to a woman".
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Comments (166)
Divorcedat21 11
I run the office at a company that does similar work. My staff have stories like this all the time. Sorry you had a bad day, OP. But thank you, for devoting your career to helping people. Good support workers are so hard to find, and this is why.
scruffy_janitor5 1
Looks like you can add that to the book
sicwitit 0
dude really?? autistic people are amazing. my brother is slightly autistic and he does have his moments at time but you gotta know about them to really understand them. maybe op didn't know this kid very well
sicwitit 0
That last comment was for banananut
Enforcer 7
OH THE IRONY!
mattorama 15
You have noble profession, and you have my respect for that, but you knew what you were getting into dealing with the mentally handicapped.
lisaw375 0
LMAO!!
drivemysoul19 8
Well, he used the book.
FYLDeep 26
When all else fails, you can always bring in Bruce Willis.
fatraptorjesus13 9
what?!? has anybody ever told you that you're an idiot?