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Old Apr 09, 2017, 05:31 PM
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Yeah. A lot of them are useless, and it's pointless because most of them don't show much of an interest. That last lot I had in the past were okay, but I don't think they knew much about autism at all. They get basic training, I guess, but they clearly aren't good at handling meltdowns. And clients having crushes on care workers may be inappropriate, but I would hardly define it as being uncommon or really immoral either since we're all still people. Well, from the point of view of say, Sara, it made her feel uneasy. To act the way she did though was very extreme. It's against the rules to date or befriend caregivers, but with the way I got lied to and treated by the very people I trusted just over something silly like that, it seemed that in the end, they were more like the Gestapo and I was just another Jew. What happened to me was pretty awful, but worse incidents have happened. Mister Pain on here for example had people stealing his medication.

For crying out loud, I let my mouth rumble and say someone was fine. That was it. Before I knew it, I was treated like trash, locked up, lied to again, arrested, jailed again, and left to rot, because they portrayed me to be something worse than I am. That is not counting all the times I stayed out in freezing cold temperatures to avoid facing the police, yet it was gonna happen anyway.

I think it's hard to find friends even if you are not on the spectrum, so it's good to have at least one care worker around if they are competent, even though I'm not physically disabled, and perhaps I'm getting hours better suited to someone who truly needs the time. But I think this guy needs a nap between his shifts, and he's not getting that due to his schedule. Maybe I should just humor him, and do what he wants from now on. At least I'm still getting to have his company. It's only 6 hours a week anyway. So it works out 3 hours each day.

It's not really fair that I have to please him, though. And by the way, he added me on Facebook. That is also not allowed. It's not that I mind, but I don't think support workers are supposed to send friend requests on social media. It's just some rule. When I got support from Autism Initiatives, nobody was allowed to add me on Facebook. The workers were all giving work email addresses anyway, and mobile numbers.