Posted by alexandra_k on July 28, 2005, at 0:35:19
In reply to Re: Interacting with crazy people (long), posted by Dinah on July 28, 2005, at 0:23:29
I like 'crazy people' by which I mean the people who should probably be in hospital or something. But then that is typically where I meet them! And in supported accomodation. I used to live there. In the spirit of deinstitutionalisation and all.
I used to behave a lot more 'odd' than I do now. Because in hospital certain social norms don't really apply. So you kind of get into that variety of disinhibition. I remember a couple habits that took a while to go. Pacing. Drug treatement knocked that one out of me. Apparantly pacing is jail behaviour which you aren't allowed to do in drug treatment. I told them it was also mental hospital behaviour but they still wouldn't let me do it ;-) Another was rocking. I used to have to be in constant rocking motion. Another was my habit of sitting down whenever and wherever I felt like it. I didn't purposely try to be obstructive, but I'd just sit down. I did that round uni too. I'd just sit down in the middle of a paved area and read my book. And in the hallway waiting for the right time to go into the room. I didn't think it appeared odd until one day my supervisor sat down across the corridor from me. That gave me a suprise and I thought 'how odd'! And realised... That it was.
I'm afraid when people are hostile.
But as for the rest...
I like 'em.
They are more understandable than most 'normal' people IMO.
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