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<blockquote data-quote="pigless in VA" data-source="post: 711085" data-attributes="member: 11832"><p>svengandhi, my coworker calls them "power surges."</p><p></p><p>Here's a current weird work story. I am working with a child who is 13 but behaves more like a 3 year old. I worked in a preschool for 9 years, so I know I am accurate. </p><p></p><p>Let's call the boy Damian. I don't know what Damian's actual diagnosis is, but I know very well that he is not on the autism spectrum. He proudly announces that he has "issues." Oh, my, yes. He has many. I suspect ODD based on his behavior. He hates the number 10. Every time someone says, "ten" he says, "eleven." Most of the time this is just a low level annoyance. Sometimes it can be problematic. I was reading a math test to him and the word "attendance" showed up many times. Finally, I asked him if we should power through the problem or if he just wanted to answer it without thinking about it. We had another question concerning 10's placement that he also could not handle. I finally discovered that if I just pointed to the number 10 and didn't say the word that he could cope better. </p><p></p><p>He also hates apples. Anytime someone mentions the word "apple" he says, "ewww." You have no idea how many times apples appear in an ordinary school day. </p><p></p><p>And lastly there are the pencil points. He can't have any pencil pointing at him. If they are, it freaks him out and he can't concentrate. Similarly, he can have no one sitting behind him for the same reason. </p><p></p><p>Damian is also the most disgusting human I have ever met. Most of my day, I have to sit next to him. Anytime someone coughs or clears their throat, he acks like Bill the Cat. Lately, he has started spitting. Spitting outside. Spitting on the floor. Spitting into the trashcan. Finally, we had him spit into a tissues, but he did it so often that I was really getting grossed out. When he was wasn't spitting, he was blowing his nose loudly. By Friday afternoon, I had reached my limit. I had to move away from him just to maintain my sanity.</p><p></p><p>So, I came up with a terrible sentence that Damian would absolutely hate. No, I will not torture him with ever reading it to him, but my coworkers thought it was hilarious.</p><p></p><p>The attendance of the tenants from the tenement at the circus tent was ten fold better than ten years ago. Ten tenacious jugglers with tendrilous tentacles were intensely tending to juggling ten apples, albeit tentatively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigless in VA, post: 711085, member: 11832"] svengandhi, my coworker calls them "power surges." Here's a current weird work story. I am working with a child who is 13 but behaves more like a 3 year old. I worked in a preschool for 9 years, so I know I am accurate. Let's call the boy Damian. I don't know what Damian's actual diagnosis is, but I know very well that he is not on the autism spectrum. He proudly announces that he has "issues." Oh, my, yes. He has many. I suspect ODD based on his behavior. He hates the number 10. Every time someone says, "ten" he says, "eleven." Most of the time this is just a low level annoyance. Sometimes it can be problematic. I was reading a math test to him and the word "attendance" showed up many times. Finally, I asked him if we should power through the problem or if he just wanted to answer it without thinking about it. We had another question concerning 10's placement that he also could not handle. I finally discovered that if I just pointed to the number 10 and didn't say the word that he could cope better. He also hates apples. Anytime someone mentions the word "apple" he says, "ewww." You have no idea how many times apples appear in an ordinary school day. And lastly there are the pencil points. He can't have any pencil pointing at him. If they are, it freaks him out and he can't concentrate. Similarly, he can have no one sitting behind him for the same reason. Damian is also the most disgusting human I have ever met. Most of my day, I have to sit next to him. Anytime someone coughs or clears their throat, he acks like Bill the Cat. Lately, he has started spitting. Spitting outside. Spitting on the floor. Spitting into the trashcan. Finally, we had him spit into a tissues, but he did it so often that I was really getting grossed out. When he was wasn't spitting, he was blowing his nose loudly. By Friday afternoon, I had reached my limit. I had to move away from him just to maintain my sanity. So, I came up with a terrible sentence that Damian would absolutely hate. No, I will not torture him with ever reading it to him, but my coworkers thought it was hilarious. The attendance of the tenants from the tenement at the circus tent was ten fold better than ten years ago. Ten tenacious jugglers with tendrilous tentacles were intensely tending to juggling ten apples, albeit tentatively. [/QUOTE]
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