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This month has not exactly been the "shittiest" month but it has NOT been the best.
Update on my last update... I still have my client.
I was switched from the 17 year old boy I was originally assigned to a 15 year old extremely autistic and obsessive girl. So far I have endured not the worst, but the "nicer" of her aggressive behaviors she has to pressure. She is one that bites, spits, slaps, pushes, and pulls. So far she has pulled, and bitten me. Let me remind you I say I have experienced the nicer of her aggressive behaviors. I have two HUGE welts on my arms, one on my forearm, and one on the back of my bicep, they are decorated with nice blue and yellow bruising as well as ripped skin. I joke with myself that thank god she gets a rabies shot, of course I would never make this joke in public...whoops.
it is always so refreshing to see a mother as dedicated as hers is to getting their child help. The mother has become her "homeschooling" teacher, her caretaker, and scheduling service. This girl literally has a SHIT-TON of therapists, I am one of three provided by the company I work for (IPP), she also has a speech therapist, a occupational therapist, and a few others which I have been unable to translate from Spanish to English. I of course speak English with the girl, but Spanish is preferred with the mother, I can honestly say this does not bother me because the mother speaks English with her daughter, the Spanish is the "adult talk." The father... well, he exists, he is present in the house, he is caring the his children, to me... well it's as if I don't exist, he greets me and then that is all, he walks away, or says "ok well I think that is enough for today," in Spanish of course. Whatever though, the mother warned me and apologized in advance, I sort of understand, I try to tell myself it is probably hard to be seen in a comprimising position where your daughter sometimes just cannot be helped (I mean in the way of tantruming), but at the same time, I don't give a shit, they are paying for a service which I am getting paid to perform I secretly think he should grow a pair and deal with the fact that there are people there to help his daughter become easier to manage, after all how much longer do they want this girl to be obsessing over movies like she does now, on friday we spent an hour looking for "The Prince and the Pauper" seriously, one hour, it is rediculous, I would have response blocked that so quickly if I had been there when the desire for it had started.
As for the other things in my life...
school has been relaxing, the two classes I have on campus are nice, one is Stats which will hopefully be better the second time around and the other is my Behavioral Analysis class which I love, and love the professor as well. The other two are online, an art history, and a spanish class.
My mondays, wednesdays, and fridays are spent around the house with Boswell, and working on things for my classes. It is fun, and I will now be working 5 days a week, M and W from 3-8 and T R F from 3:30 to 6:30
One job pays me weekly, another pays me monthly, which reminds me I NEED to get to the bank. I will tomorrow. I promise... (I promise myself of course)
Well, this seems sufficient, I am going to return to my Sex and the City marathon with my Jack and Coke, and the backround noise of my cuban neighbors party, and my mom on the couch waiting to watch SNL with her martini (aka she is asleep on the couch with her martini)
Update on my last update... I still have my client.
I was switched from the 17 year old boy I was originally assigned to a 15 year old extremely autistic and obsessive girl. So far I have endured not the worst, but the "nicer" of her aggressive behaviors she has to pressure. She is one that bites, spits, slaps, pushes, and pulls. So far she has pulled, and bitten me. Let me remind you I say I have experienced the nicer of her aggressive behaviors. I have two HUGE welts on my arms, one on my forearm, and one on the back of my bicep, they are decorated with nice blue and yellow bruising as well as ripped skin. I joke with myself that thank god she gets a rabies shot, of course I would never make this joke in public...whoops.
it is always so refreshing to see a mother as dedicated as hers is to getting their child help. The mother has become her "homeschooling" teacher, her caretaker, and scheduling service. This girl literally has a SHIT-TON of therapists, I am one of three provided by the company I work for (IPP), she also has a speech therapist, a occupational therapist, and a few others which I have been unable to translate from Spanish to English. I of course speak English with the girl, but Spanish is preferred with the mother, I can honestly say this does not bother me because the mother speaks English with her daughter, the Spanish is the "adult talk." The father... well, he exists, he is present in the house, he is caring the his children, to me... well it's as if I don't exist, he greets me and then that is all, he walks away, or says "ok well I think that is enough for today," in Spanish of course. Whatever though, the mother warned me and apologized in advance, I sort of understand, I try to tell myself it is probably hard to be seen in a comprimising position where your daughter sometimes just cannot be helped (I mean in the way of tantruming), but at the same time, I don't give a shit, they are paying for a service which I am getting paid to perform I secretly think he should grow a pair and deal with the fact that there are people there to help his daughter become easier to manage, after all how much longer do they want this girl to be obsessing over movies like she does now, on friday we spent an hour looking for "The Prince and the Pauper" seriously, one hour, it is rediculous, I would have response blocked that so quickly if I had been there when the desire for it had started.
As for the other things in my life...
school has been relaxing, the two classes I have on campus are nice, one is Stats which will hopefully be better the second time around and the other is my Behavioral Analysis class which I love, and love the professor as well. The other two are online, an art history, and a spanish class.
My mondays, wednesdays, and fridays are spent around the house with Boswell, and working on things for my classes. It is fun, and I will now be working 5 days a week, M and W from 3-8 and T R F from 3:30 to 6:30
One job pays me weekly, another pays me monthly, which reminds me I NEED to get to the bank. I will tomorrow. I promise... (I promise myself of course)
Well, this seems sufficient, I am going to return to my Sex and the City marathon with my Jack and Coke, and the backround noise of my cuban neighbors party, and my mom on the couch waiting to watch SNL with her martini (aka she is asleep on the couch with her martini)