Posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 23:58:15
In reply to Re: Social Skills, posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 23:33:24
sigh.
this is all because i've told the girls across the hall *at least three times* that they can be as noisy as they want in their rooms *with the doors shut* and i can't hear them at all - but if they make noise in the hall *i can't hear anything but them*.
it is a combination of stupidity and wilfull ignorance.
i do appreciate that most of the course that one of them is on is in fact devoted to teaching them to wash their hands. that they will be taught this repetitively over the course of the semester. and that *still* the significant majority will forget but they will have to pass them any way.
(actually i hear medical students are just about as bad. sigh).
so what makes me think that they can stop slamming doors, singing in the halls etc after only three tellings?
what am i supposed to do? i don't understand.
ideally...
i suppose humour could help. i could go out and be all cheerfully like 'oh, hello noisy one!' and if i'm suitably cheerful it might not be quite as tedious for them as it would be for me.
but then i would be *rewarding* them for their noisiness. since their noisiness is all about their informing other people 'here i am!' since they are lonely and wish others would make noise so they could go bug them. so... that strategy would only result in their making more noise...
if i yell at them... i still feel that it would be a case of punishment is better than no attention.
how the f*ck did i manage to be the keeper of the intellectually handicapped asylum?
and why am i feeling so... hostile? scathing? about intellectually handicapped people? isn't that.... awful? what is happening to me???????
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