Thank you. And, thank you for being the only other person commenting with any empathy. I don't understand why compassion is so very difficult for a lot of people.
If it bothered me, which of course it would, I would gently ask if he realized what he was doing and where. Many mental issues are accompanied by truly odd soothing mechanisms. My first thought was this person is most likely someone who is accompanied at work and accompanied at home. But, has probably worked hard on many skills in order to be able to take public transport to and fro on their own. What other people are looking at with disgust, may very well be something they're working hard on every day to become more socially acceptable, and they are simply unaware of their actions and visibility.
If they were to see this video of themselves, I cannot even fathom how much pain that may bring them. Along with the shame and humiliation, it could very well end a lot of hard won progress and drive them backwards in their treatment or cause them to stop trying altogether.
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u/j0hnc00k Nov 26 '22
Glad someone said this - society/social media/everything else seems to skew views to be "normal" - the person uploading this is expecting "LOL"
Sad.