Today, I was helping some mental health patients at work, I spent 20 mins to fail to connect the DVD player to the TV and went back to make them something to eat. I came back into the room after 5 mins and one of the patients had connected it for himself. He has a profound learning disability. FML
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Today, while teaching my class, I hooked my laptop up to the projector and put on a documentary. I left it playing and went to the toilet. When I came back, the whole class was talking to my mother. She must've Skyped me while I was gone and someone answered the call. FML
Today, I was trying to turn on my computer and couldn't. I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what was wrong when I finally called my husband for help and made him leave work. He came in, looked at the wall, and plugged it back in. The look on his face said it all. FML
Today, I'm self isolating with a mother who hogs the remote but doesn't know how to use it, and is so short-sighted she can barely see the TV. Every five minutes, I hear, "What have I done now?", "How have I got onto this then?" and she won't let me help her. FML
Today, I stood there for 10 minutes trying to fix the toaster, until I called my brother to help me. I'd forgotten that it wasn't plugged in. He now thinks I'm a complete idiot. 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 was working at the hospital and it was very busy. Unthinking, I told a patient in a wheelchair to "sit tight" while I checked on something. He mocked me for the rest of his stay. FML
Today, I was driving home from a long day at work fixing people's electronics. When I got home, I got a call from work saying I needed to go back and help a customer with their TV again. When I got there, after an hour of driving, I realized I'd accidentally kicked the power cord out. FML
Today, in Home Ec, I struggled to open the microwave for almost 10 minutes in front of the whole class. FML
Today, I was going to the bathroom at work. Since I knew it would take a while, I brought my iPod in for entertainment. To bad it disabled me from hearing the continuous knocks on the door as well as the manager eventually picking the lock and busting in. FML
Today, while working at a nursing home, I was alone in the station and figured I could sneak one out. It wound up being very loud, and I could hear the faint snickering of a patient in the next room. Every time he saw me for the rest of the day he would burst out laughing. FML
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Geist_fml 0
Your giving them way too little credit. They are humans like you and me after all.
Azurea_fml 0
You might be retarded.
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Pizzabutt 0
REDRED YELLOWYELLOW WHITEWHITE It's ******* color coded!
rawr_93 0
a lot of people with certain learning disabilities have certain areas in which they are really intelligent. like the guy in rainman was a genius with numbers but he couldnt function in normal society. maybe this guy's thing was knowing how electronics work or something. then again, hooking up a dvd player isn't that hard. so maybe you're just stupid.
yoursavinggrace 0
#97 Maybe you've had limited exposure to autistic people, but the "severity" can range significantly. For example, my brother can construe basic sentences such as "Yes please", "No thank you," and "I want ______." However, there are people at his school who can't even talk, they flip out when other people touch them, and they have absolutely no way of expressing themselves. And then there are those who you can barely tell are autistic. Sorry for lecturing you, but it made me a little upset that you were making those suffering with autism seem insignificant. I'm sure you didn't know any better though, so it's fine.
Luvdaisuke 0
I agree with #9. I think those people there could be smarter than many people in the world. I'm hurt how you assume people with mental heath are retarded and can't do anything. My brother has a mental issue. But he is still very smart. He's a really bright and smart guy and nothing could change that. So deal with it. Someone with a mental issue fixes something for you, and you think it's a horrible thing. But it's not, it's just an average everyday person fixing something for you.
eeee93757 0
You can't set up a DVD player?! (Not to assume because what 132 said is very true, but) Are you sure you're not ONE of the patients?
omgitsLindsay 0
red wire goes is red hole, white wire goes in white hole, yellow wire goes in yellow hole. Unless it's a HD DVD player, but I highly doubt that. But if that is the case. Square ended wire goes in square hole.
crap09 0
Hey, you guys never know. Maybe it was a TV that isn`t color coded. You guys are making assumptions as bad as the OP`s.
omgitsLindsay 0
I've never seen a TV that's not colour coded. Ever. Except for older model TVs but then you'd jsut have to use a coaxial cable which would be even easier.
soulonfire928 0
mental health problems != learning disabilities. mental health = depression, bipolar disorder, etc. learning disabilities = autism, mental retardation, etc. You're an idiot.
SirAndrew 0
Yellow goes to Yellow. White goes to White. Red goes to Red. Been like this since the 90's, where have you been?