My weird roomate: Mystery of the magnets solved (sort of)
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Ajgoodfellow — 2 years ago(March 29, 2024 08:03 AM)
So, not only was he taking down magnets without asking, but then he started taking down a Christmas photo of my nephew. I put it back up and then he took it down again and put it in a drawer! So I had to confront him on exactly what the hell was happening.
He basically said he's autistic and his mind sees things differently. Which I guess also explains why he talks to himself. I guess there was something in the Christmas photo that made him uncomfortable. I think it was little Christmas figurines in the photo. And he said the Simpsons magnets were also figures that made him uncomfortable. I'm no autism expert so I have no idea if there's validity to what he's saying, but that was the reason he gave me.
I still think he's a weirdo but I guess I know why now.
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Ajgoodfellow — 2 years ago(March 29, 2024 08:17 AM)
As long as he pays his rent, isn't violent and is reasonably clean, I'll put up with it. Besides he signed a six month lease so I have to give him until then, at least. But I will be counting the knives every night, just to be safe.
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/. — 2 years ago(March 29, 2024 09:07 AM)
Good to hear you haven't been harmed. It wmight be helpful to know where he is on the spectrum, but I don't know how you'd be able to determine that. Just hang in there and be as careful and thoughtful as possible.
If you could find out who some of his previous roomies are, you could ask them about things that set him off in the past. Doubtful if it would be kosher to talk to his parents about it, but it's something to consider.
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The Kraken — 2 years ago(March 29, 2024 08:43 AM)
My daughter had Autism and she never did stuff like that. She did talk to herself though.
She would wear our clothes and take lipstick or nail polish and use our hair stuff.
But she didn't remove things off the refrigerator.
Then again, we had her in rehabilitation for her Autism since she was 3 years old.
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/. — 2 years ago(March 31, 2024 10:02 AM)
Evict the weird ****. You can't go to sleep at night knowing somebody irrational is in your house. We're supposed to make consessions for mental illness today, but I say **** that. Why should you risk your safety and security because the government won't put the proper measures in place. Get him gone. He needs to be in a specialist until where they can monitor him. Make sure he doesn't buy any weapons, and so on.
He's probably a school shooter in the making and when it happens the media and their bosses, the Dems, will blame the guns.
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What will you do, just accept his weirdo behaviour?
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