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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It's wild to say but I feel like the literally criminally insane men I was working with taught me better people skills than my parents did.

That actually sounds pretty reasonable to me (not to excuse your parents, if applicable). It’s not the same thing at all, but I learned much better people skills from living with a boyfriend who had abandoned his treatment for and didn’t tell me about his paranoid schizophrenia than from anyone else. He read so much into everything I said, that I learned to speak very deliberately.

When you are working with people with a very different perspective on the world that you can’t change, and neither party feels entitled to acceptance because of family, you need to learn how to treat others respectfully and with dignity to succeed.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 15 hours ago

He read so much into everything I said, that I learned to speak very deliberately.

I have found this helps but also that a lot of people hear what they want to hear no matter how clear and deliberate you are, and recognizing who those people are is another skill.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah I feel like it's one of those things that sounds completely insane unless you've been through something similar. A lot of it was learning how to respond to crazy but I did actually learn a few positive behaviors directly from them. You'd be surprised how much please / thank you and sir / ma'am they use. I also learned to stand a lot taller, swagger a little, and speak from my chest. Like people will comment on how much confidence I display which is wild to me being actually in my own head. There are also a few really poignant lessons I learned from some very specific patients but those are much longer stories of their own.

I also always said I wanted to be someone worth listening to and I will say I never seem to have a problem with that now. When I took my instructor classes to start teaching violence deescalation and physical management classes they told me it was going to be hard to get people to stay engaged and pay attention but I rarely have trouble with that. Organization and staying on topic are hard but my ratings on how much is learned and enjoyability are consistently high.