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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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rockonCB4 0
It just shows how intelligent people with learning disabilities can be, even if they don't look/act it.
beachgal 0
first off you're a jerk for assuming that all special needs people are retarded and can't perform simple functions. second of all, just because you have a profound learning disability doesn't mean that the person wouldn't be able to properly connect dvd cables. if you have this perception of special needs people, why are you working with them?
hihihi1234 0
For someone who works with mental health patients, you don't have a lot of faith in them. Assuming that they are incapable of doing something a "normal" person cannot do just because they have a learning disability, no matter how extreme it is, is an extremely ignorant and terrible way to treat another human.
Mint_fml 0
I have a learning disability and I'm doing great in University. Disabilities don't always limit people, you shouldn't make assumptions.
Broodman 1
Hey OP, Red pointy thing goes into red hole, White pointy thing goes into the white hole, and yellow pointy thing goes in the yellow hole. Then you plug this thing with 2 silver things sticking out into the wall that has 2 holes that fit this thing.
idreamofpeace 0
I completely agree with #55! Don't assume that just because they're mental health patients that they can't do the same things you can do; they can obviously do some things better than you!
24788 7
They aren't dumb as hell. They just lack in many areas and are very smart in others.
Ric3ball 0
LOLOL um yeah, it's color coded, dear. :]
Anarchy_fml 0
IQ TEST...
shostakovich 0
Hey #1, the computer screen is not a mirror.