5 shocking realities of working with disturbed children

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Cracked Article.

Mmmm. Alternatives, request for proposals?

1) Cracked do esn't exist to be nice, or polite, or really to be taken as "serious journalism." It's sort of their thing to be rude, shocking, and in-your-face.

2) Maybe sometimes we NEED that-- because this is the other half of the story. OK, maybe more like the other three percent of the story. Yes, I'm really sick of it being the representative image of all of us (me having a meltdown-- woman crying loudly, cursing creatively, or smoking like a train, or assiduously stuffing every unnecessary thing she owns into cardboard boxes labelled "GOODWILL," all the while smiling waaaaay to brightly and speaking in waaaaaaaay to cheerful of a voice-- no feces or bodily fluids involved). I'm really sick of bad practices that provoke more and worse distress than necessary. I'm REALLY FECKING SICK of the "burden on society" shtick. I mean, seriously-- are we Neolithic hunter-gatherers?? Shall we leave our old people out to die if grocery prices are too high next winter?? Refuse to recognize our boys as men until they've clubbed a dozen seals, and kill all female children at birth unless there is already one healthy son in the household??

They wouldn't have either, had it not been a survival imperative. I'm sure they didn't like it. So, in our relatively secure and prosperous age, let's drop that crap.

But-- this is the other piece of the story. And they're right-- no one wants to look at it. Most of US, HERE, don't want to look at it-- it's sort of like whistling past the graveyard, isn't it????

But we're not going to figure out how to do any better if we don't look at it. If it isn't in our faces.

How to fix it?? I don't know.

I bet KoR will have some good suggestions.

Part of the solution is to not base policy on what you read on Cracked

Some truth there,but a bit over the top and trashy

Cracked isn't all bad, I like their explanation for Autism in this listicle (even though it might not be scientifically accurate)

http://www.cracked.com/article_20905_5- ... es_p2.html

If you're going to hire people with no experience, and give them no training, and have very few restrictions who can get a job... it's not hard to predict that you're going to have problems. If the rest of society isn't going to bother looking at the issue, then such problems aren't going to be dealt with.

But, what would you do, if an adult male stripped naked and started masturbating over you? What alternatives are there to restraining him and keeping him imprisoned, and how do we implement them? What do you do with people who get violent easily, other than putting them in prison? It's easy to talk about how terrible places like the JRC are - and they are terrible - but unless we can provide an alternative, such things are just going to continue. As Buckminster Fuller said, we need to make a new model that makes the old one obsolete.

So, what does that new model look like?

This is the first time I don't see any humor in the article. There really are children out there who really are that disturbed. I knew a couple in my life who were violent. Read up on ODD or Conduct Disorder or Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) for one. Sadly we haven't figured out a better a way to help these children as the article states. They don't hire trained people or bother to train people how to handle these children. Do they not know how to handle them either?

I do believe people need to be kept behind walls if they are that violent and can't be around other people because they impose a danger to others. No one should have to get beaten up or harmed by these people, adults and children.

Anyone who is willing to work with these kids deserves support not blame. When a person is acting in a self-destructive manner it is dangerous to intervene. That these workers put their personal safety on the line is commendable.