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(Liverpool Echo)   Nutritionists say what you should eat depends on a lot of things. What you shouldn't eat? Depends   (liverpoolecho.co.uk) divider line
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2184 clicks; posted to Main » on 26 Jan 2023 at 9:12 PM (9 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Driver [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-26 6:30:28 PM  
Nope. Not gonna ask. Don't wanna know. I just feel bad for the guy and his family.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut [BareFark]
2023-01-26 9:14:31 PM  

Driver: Nope. Not gonna ask. Don't wanna know. I just feel bad for the guy and his family.


Ripped out padding and tried to swallow it apparently.  That takes some pretty profound levels of autism, but people do exist at that level.  Often not for too long, obvious reasons
 
gilgigamesh
2023-01-26 9:16:20 PM  
Uh, wow.

I think that's enough internet for today.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 9:17:25 PM  

Some Junkie Cosmonaut: Driver: Nope. Not gonna ask. Don't wanna know. I just feel bad for the guy and his family.

Ripped out padding and tried to swallow it apparently.  That takes some pretty profound levels of autism, but people do exist at that level.  Often not for too long, obvious reasons


For some reason, profoundly disabled people have pica. I don't know if it's because they're so infantile they're still at the "put everything in their mouths" stage, or they just lack the filter that stops them from doing it; but it's a major problem in the few hospitals and group homes that remain for them. They will swallow quite literally anything that they find.
 
Sexy Jesus
2023-01-26 9:20:28 PM  
They took him to his room, where thrusts were administered...

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Some Junkie Cosmonaut [BareFark]
2023-01-26 9:22:34 PM  

Gyrfalcon: Some Junkie Cosmonaut: Driver: Nope. Not gonna ask. Don't wanna know. I just feel bad for the guy and his family.

Ripped out padding and tried to swallow it apparently.  That takes some pretty profound levels of autism, but people do exist at that level.  Often not for too long, obvious reasons

For some reason, profoundly disabled people have pica. I don't know if it's because they're so infantile they're still at the "put everything in their mouths" stage, or they just lack the filter that stops them from doing it; but it's a major problem in the few hospitals and group homes that remain for them. They will swallow quite literally anything that they find.


Only certain types though.  For instance people I've known with kids with Downs - it was np.  You told them no a few times and there we are, as long as it wasn't something seriously complicated explanations-wise they got that just fine.  Autism though, when it really hits the outer limits... just oof.  You're not even living on this planet anymore

/key words outer limits - most people with some level of autism are nothing like that no
//but the most severe cases - it's gotta be frightening just existing among what to you are a bunch of incomprehensible aliens
///and forcing you to do/not do shiat and keeping you from going where you like too - it sounds like pure hell
////if you weren't crazy to start, you'd sure as fark be after a while of that
 
magneticmushroom [OhFark]
2023-01-26 9:23:42 PM  
Man, that's sad. It seems like it was kiiinda preventable, but when a person is determined to do something like that, there's only so much you can do short of putting them in a straitjacket.

My mother was a psych nurse for 20 years and every now and then, someone would manage to harm themselves (or usually another nurse) because no system is perfect that isn't also totally inhumane.
 
tuxq
2023-01-26 9:24:17 PM  
Aw. Come on. I'm down for a dark laugh but don't poke fun at a disabled person
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 9:30:48 PM  
There had been missed opportunities to increase his levels of observation after he was seen trying to ingest non-edible items on December 15 and December 26 2020, as these incidents were not properly escalated. The court previously heard that, if they had been, Matthew's checks would have been increased from hourly to every 15 minutes. However, this was not sufficient to determine that his life would have been saved.

Bro ... reminds me of Terri Schiavo, although he wasn't in a vegatative state. Sometimes I'm not sure if healthcare helps or hurts. Just because you can keep them alive doesn't mean you should.
 
Boo_Guy
2023-01-26 9:33:33 PM  
Animals don't care what brand it is.
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/it's just a wrapper for the tootsie roll inside anyway
 
chitownmike
2023-01-26 9:41:23 PM  

magneticmushroom: Man, that's sad. It seems like it was kiiinda preventable, but when a person is determined to do something like that, there's only so much you can do short of putting them in a straitjacket.

My mother was a psych nurse for 20 years and every now and then, someone would manage to harm themselves (or usually another nurse) because no system is perfect that isn't also totally inhumane.


Straight jackets are now conveniently packaged in syringes and pill bottles.
 
Lsherm [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 9:43:30 PM  
I used to work with a guy who had a son who was almost this far gone on the autism spectrum. Noncommunicative, prone to self-harm, not "potty trained" as I call it, tantrums daily. When I met him his son was 12, when I changed jobs his son was 24, and I'd swear that guy and his wife aged 40 years in that time.

There's an immense amount of love that keeps people going to take care of a person like that, but I dread the day my old colleague dies. His son is going to follow soon. No one else is going to keep him alive.
 
Moose out front
2023-01-26 9:43:33 PM  
Worked as a psychiatric technician for a few years on several locked units in a mental health facility back in the late 1990's.

Seen lots of stuff, but yeah, the profoundly autistic / mentally non-functioning were really difficult. Usually when they're that bad, they've got a 1 to 1 staff member assigned solely to watch/follow them around each shift but even then, they can be so unpredictable that there's just nothing you can do to prevent injury.

It's rough.
 
mononymous
2023-01-26 9:53:13 PM  
Eat me where the Pampers is. CAVEAT EMPTOR.
 
stringbad [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-26 9:53:53 PM  
Accidents arent all preventable. Sad for everyone actually involved. Onlookers not so much :(
 
btch_cakes
2023-01-26 10:00:51 PM  
imma be sad at the story but that's a fine headline. admit it.
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 10:08:48 PM  
The Man Who Mistook His Incontinence Pad for Dinner was the book Oliver Sachs never wrote.
 
Priapetic [BareFark]
2023-01-26 10:13:10 PM  

Floki: The Man Who Mistook His Incontinence Pad for Dinner was the book Oliver Sachs never wrote.


Yeah I think chuck tingle wrote that
 
zjoik
2023-01-26 10:16:38 PM  
Ok whomever wrote the line under the headline knew exactly what they're doing...

/and id prefer a seat in their aisle
 
zjoik
2023-01-26 10:17:04 PM  
*in the article
 
IDGAF
2023-01-26 10:24:39 PM  
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kb7rky
2023-01-26 10:30:56 PM  
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wingedkat [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 10:39:39 PM  

Gyrfalcon: Some Junkie Cosmonaut: Driver: Nope. Not gonna ask. Don't wanna know. I just feel bad for the guy and his family.

Ripped out padding and tried to swallow it apparently.  That takes some pretty profound levels of autism, but people do exist at that level.  Often not for too long, obvious reasons

For some reason, profoundly disabled people have pica. I don't know if it's because they're so infantile they're still at the "put everything in their mouths" stage, or they just lack the filter that stops them from doing it; but it's a major problem in the few hospitals and group homes that remain for them. They will swallow quite literally anything that they find.


My father had some of that after his stroke.  It was weird because he'd put something in his mouth, and I would wrestle it out and ask him if he should eat that thing.  He'd immediately reply "of course not!  That's not edible.  I wouldn't eat that!"  Then when I'd  stop watching him he'd grab that thing and put it in his mouth.

I sometimes wondered if he was trying to kill himself, or if he simply was unaware of what he was doing.

Either way, leaving him alone in the dining hall was definitely not ok.
 
LouisZepher
2023-01-26 10:48:55 PM  

mononymous: Eat me where the Pampers is. CAVEAT EMPTOR.


The line was "blow me where the pampers is," misheard from "show.me where the campus is."
 
IDGAF
2023-01-26 10:52:18 PM  

LouisZepher: mononymous: Eat me where the Pampers is. CAVEAT EMPTOR.

The line was "blow me where the pampers is," misheard from "show.me where the campus is."


See my GIF above :P
 
MissedThePoint
2023-01-26 11:01:35 PM  
I bet the stuffing looked like cotton candy, which would be visually intriguing to chew them like those Tide pods. Yet, worse, it's an absorbent material like powdered cinnamon.
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-01-26 11:39:31 PM  
i once ate the tampon that comes on the back of a steak. yeah, i was drunk, and it was hard to swallow. didn't even realize it till the next day.
 
mononymous
2023-01-27 12:15:41 AM  

LouisZepher: mononymous: Eat me where the Pampers is. CAVEAT EMPTOR.

The line was "blow me where the pampers is," misheard from "show.me where the campus is."


I paraphrased. "Blow" didn't work for the joke.
 
MythDragon
2023-01-27 12:49:35 AM  
What does an old lady's crotch taste like?
Depends.

/sorry
 
DarksideHalo
2023-01-27 1:45:48 AM  
After reading the comments here, I see all the aisle seats are filled.
I'll take a window seat 💺. The hellfire must be pretty.
 
DarksideHalo
2023-01-27 3:12:20 AM  

some_beer_drinker: i once ate the tampon that comes on the back of a steak. yeah, i was drunk, and it was hard to swallow. didn't even realize it till the next day.


Username disgustingly checks out.
Did you also ever put a pizza in the oven with the cardboard still on the bottom?
... or the PLASTIC still on?!
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 8:42:58 AM  
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some_beer_drinker
2023-01-27 11:03:14 AM  

DarksideHalo: some_beer_drinker: i once ate the tampon that comes on the back of a steak. yeah, i was drunk, and it was hard to swallow. didn't even realize it till the next day.

Username disgustingly checks out.
Did you also ever put a pizza in the oven with the cardboard still on the bottom?
... or the PLASTIC still on?!


cardboard, yes, plastic no
 
LouisZepher
2023-01-27 1:00:07 PM  

IDGAF: LouisZepher: mononymous: Eat me where the Pampers is. CAVEAT EMPTOR.

The line was "blow me where the pampers is," misheard from "show.me where the campus is."

See my GIF above :P


Gutter is a tool!
 
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