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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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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)
xxJonaKillsxx 8
Well at least he's using the book :)
StalinsHeir 1
Any wonder he hit you with it, those books are lame as hell.
abbasgirl 3
Good for you for doing the job you do! But as a professional in the field, it's really important to get your labels right. As others have mentioned, the correct way to refer to someone with a disability (or mental illness) is to put the person first and then the disability. This is because they are a person like everyone else and while they have a disability, it shouldn't be the only thing that defines them. So in your case, you would write "child with autism." This is common practice among professionals in Ontario.
mollyjynxjax 28
As an autistic person with an autistic brother and some autistic friends, I can vouch that many autistic people don't give a shit whether you call them autistic people or people with autism.
zimmobunny 1
lesson learned. dont give a violent kid something that they can be violent with
zimmobunny 1
lesson learned. dont give a violent kid something that they can be violent with
zimmobunny 1
lesson learned. dont give a violent kid something that they can be violent with
millionz4184 2
The irony... Sucks.
droln4maltesers 8
Let's be realistic here.. As an adult would you go read that book for tips while you're angry? No... Why expect the same for kids? Not saying you deserved to be hit but come on now come up with better ways!
zoeylynn57 0
a tad ironic dont you think?
luke7bolton7 0
Yeah surry bout that