The Secret

I have been thinking about how much other people’s attitudes toward us influences our behavior. This week it really hit home. My old aide came to Mouth to Hand. It was not a good experience for me. Because she sees me as cognitive impaired, she treats me like I am an idiot. She yells at me all the time and threatens punishments. All that does is make me worse because it makes the OCD worse.

It is humiliating.

That is the easiest way to whack us out - yelling at us. 

It strikes me that I can control myself so much more when I’m happy. That’s the secret sauce. I am happy here at Mouth to Hand most of all, so typically I am pretty good. Even when I’m loud here, no one yells. Mostly Judy just laughs at my antics.

So that’s the secret to helping us: have fun.