Jeremy
Well, I am on the night shift again today because half of my coworkers are sick and my only Monday class was canceled for tomorrow. So in a 48 hour block of time I will work three 8 hour shifts two of them at time and a half. That comes to almost a weeks worth of pay for me in only a single weekend, and gives me time to share the following entry that has been in my head for a month now...
Jeremy
Jeremy is my older brother and he and I share an apartment. He has some learning disabilities and does not grasp certain social concepts, such as personal space. However he was able to move out and lived on his own for about three years before I moved in with him back in 2003. My moving in with him was mutually beneficial since I was 23 and needed to be out from under my parents roof so that I could grow, and he was in money trouble due to being mailed a preapproved credit card application every month.
Living with Jeremy is very easy for the most part because he expect nothing from me except that I get my half of the rent to the manager on time each month. On the other hand living with Jeremy has been a great challenge at times because it is nearly impossible to get him to do something he is not interested in doing. Our most recent battle is his bedroom. Another one of those social concepts that eludes Jeremy is hygiene, so getting him to wash the clothes that are struin about his room is much harder that pulling teeth. At least in pulling teeth you can use brute force and most of the time you have leverage. Jeremy is about 300 pounds and not nearly as flacid as the first glance would have you believe. With brute force was out of the question I went in search of leverage. The only thing that Jeremy much about is TV, he is able to sit infront of the magic picture box for 14 hours a day if he is not scheduled to work and sometimes will even do it if he is.
So I did the most logical thing I could think of. I hid the TV set that he and I share. I hid it in the corner, where I usually have a basket of dirty laundry, with a few shirt draped over the top of It. That morning he woke up before I had slipped out and found the TV in about 10 seconds. However his reaction seemed to indicate that I was on the right track. The next ime I tried he had already left for the day, I hid the TV under our table in the corner by the wall. I know he spent allot longer looking for it this time but he still found it rather than clean his room, and in a demonstration of remarkable cunning he put it back under the table before I came home for three days.
His room still needs to be cleaned but I have other things to worry about at the moment, and even my room is quite the disaster zone from me only being home long enough to change clothes and sleep every few days (I really am spending way to much time at work). So I burn scented candles and ask him if he has cleaned his room every time I get the chance.
The two amazing things about Jeremy are that he is unable to lie (if he does not want to answer your question he will silently glare at you until you give up, but he will never give you an answer that is not the truth) and that he will not be pressured into doing anything other than what he feels will bring him the most happiness.
Though he has many weaknesses, in some ways he is more admirable than any of the "normal" people I have ever met.
Jeremy
Jeremy is my older brother and he and I share an apartment. He has some learning disabilities and does not grasp certain social concepts, such as personal space. However he was able to move out and lived on his own for about three years before I moved in with him back in 2003. My moving in with him was mutually beneficial since I was 23 and needed to be out from under my parents roof so that I could grow, and he was in money trouble due to being mailed a preapproved credit card application every month.
Living with Jeremy is very easy for the most part because he expect nothing from me except that I get my half of the rent to the manager on time each month. On the other hand living with Jeremy has been a great challenge at times because it is nearly impossible to get him to do something he is not interested in doing. Our most recent battle is his bedroom. Another one of those social concepts that eludes Jeremy is hygiene, so getting him to wash the clothes that are struin about his room is much harder that pulling teeth. At least in pulling teeth you can use brute force and most of the time you have leverage. Jeremy is about 300 pounds and not nearly as flacid as the first glance would have you believe. With brute force was out of the question I went in search of leverage. The only thing that Jeremy much about is TV, he is able to sit infront of the magic picture box for 14 hours a day if he is not scheduled to work and sometimes will even do it if he is.
So I did the most logical thing I could think of. I hid the TV set that he and I share. I hid it in the corner, where I usually have a basket of dirty laundry, with a few shirt draped over the top of It. That morning he woke up before I had slipped out and found the TV in about 10 seconds. However his reaction seemed to indicate that I was on the right track. The next ime I tried he had already left for the day, I hid the TV under our table in the corner by the wall. I know he spent allot longer looking for it this time but he still found it rather than clean his room, and in a demonstration of remarkable cunning he put it back under the table before I came home for three days.
His room still needs to be cleaned but I have other things to worry about at the moment, and even my room is quite the disaster zone from me only being home long enough to change clothes and sleep every few days (I really am spending way to much time at work). So I burn scented candles and ask him if he has cleaned his room every time I get the chance.
The two amazing things about Jeremy are that he is unable to lie (if he does not want to answer your question he will silently glare at you until you give up, but he will never give you an answer that is not the truth) and that he will not be pressured into doing anything other than what he feels will bring him the most happiness.
Though he has many weaknesses, in some ways he is more admirable than any of the "normal" people I have ever met.
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