What would you do?
The Cat in the Hat ends with the question What would you do if your mother asked you? And so it is that I puzzle over what to do with a person who has some real problem that I can’t seem to mitigate.
PROBLEM – hyper sensitive and hyper caring person continues to use the n-word almost Tourettes-style and doesn’t respond to my discouragement. Copralia affects about 10% of Tourettes sufferers and manifests itself in repeated stereotype socially unacceptable word usage – this has to be it because I cannot fathom that this is normal. This is an intelligent person who obviously has a malfunction but is also hyper sensitive to criticism and proximity makes simple avoidance impossible.
Protecting my child from insult might be best accomplished by explaining the disease but right now my son doesn’t know why he is offended he just primally responds as if he were offended. Smart boy. But what to do to put said person out of my misery?