life in the darkness

Was just watching a rerun of one of my favourite police programmes. Frost! Starring David Jason. The episode featured a young teenager who in my opinion was displaying symptoms of autism as well as schizophrenia. The actor who played him was brilliant. The portraying of the meltdown was executed excelently. My Nan understood after that how autism can be for some. I explained them to her and what happens in Their head. The guy kept walking toward the door while the police were badgering and pestering with questions. He didn’t feel safe as it was. Eventually, he overturned the desk and was shouting etc. I knew right from the start of the interview of his agitation. You could tell. His obcession with the ISS (International space station) and UFOs was there too. He could detail every single potential sighting he’d read up on. perhaps the police, instead of badgering and questioning him, should have asked him the questions but after asking him about his models and how he knew so much, as well as asking him in his own space at home, rather than trapping him in an interview room; as he was not a suspect! If they then believed he was, he should have been released, not trapped in a cell! His parents tried to tell the officers, but they would not listen! The police even now do not have adequate training in these areas. People with brain injury also have trauma response like that and should be treated a lot more gently. Not patronised and talked down too like a child. Like: “Oh hello. Would you like to tell me about this? Or, Hello, are you alright? in a patronising manor! You’re talking to an adult! Yes, if they have cognitive difficulties, change your explanation, but not voice tone! Do not trap people in rooms. Do not keep them in cells and expect them to comply! If you believe they’re suspects, release on bale, but into a home they can be in with a carer! Not keeping them in a small compounded space! Explain why they are there, what for if they understand, then help them to understand, if they don’t. I would like to help people with SEnD and ABI. Would like to be there with them from when they wake from their coma, to when they’re out of the hospital and on their onward journey. Once they are with me, they would not have me leave their side. I would help the carers too. People need to understand what is going on in our brains, not tell us off, restrain us, Shout at us, and patronise! Authorities need to think twice before doing anything like that! You know better! Don’t just sit there in training mode and use your macanical voices! Talk to us, Actually talk! Not just talk in the macanical, question, response, question, response, oh, maybe they need comforting, I’ll just hand them a tissue as that’s all I’m allowed to do! No, they need a hug!!! You know, the form of human contact we need when upset? That one? Yes! That one! Tissues yes, but not that then just sit back and wait for the next answer! That’s not empathy! That’s not a caring person! That’s just a macanical person who’s just using their training in their way they were taught! Use it like a human!!! Not just a machine!