Comments by "Widdekuu91" (@Widdekuu91) on "Please Don't Touch Sea Worms" video.
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@duck966 Not everyone with Alzheimer's will be able to afford a caretaker, neither is it clear how he harassed them, other than driving around.
What if he was complaining about the noise, which they were making or whatever. We don't know that side at all.
All we see is him driving around, them saying they want to call someone and him having an accident and them leaving him laying there, knowing he is unable to stand up.
I have PTSD too and I have not harassed people that did construction-work, but I can definitely imagine that as an old person, with zero chill, you might.
Sure, maybe I'm too empathethic and can imagine the helplessness while laying there and being in pain and the capable youths just standing around and not helping you out, because they don't like you now, but the right thing to do, would have been to help him.
Even if it is just to show him, that there áre nice people in the world. The only thing they showed him with this behaviour, is that he was right to think that they were assholes in the first place.
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@itskitt3237 You can't see if the man has no medication and this man can't "lash out" in his wagon, he can't even walk.
There is also a big difference between possible-injuring-someone while helping them up ÁND sitting next to someone, making sure they are okay and asking if you need to get their caretaker or wife, to help them back up.
You can't just let someone lay there, saying; 'Well yeah, bruh, I don't want to hurt him, so I'll just let him lay there."
At least..I don't know what the rules in America are, but in my country, you nééd to help and leaving the person to just lay there, is punishable by law.
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@notmyrealname8445
I have a suggestion, which is 50% about empathy and 50% about good taste in music.
Froukje, a Dutch singer, made a song that is internationally loved (also a great videoclip) that shows how sometimes, grumpy or confused elderly are closer to teenagers than you think and I've read in the comments that it helps people to relate better.
The song is called Froukje - Kwijt (Lost.)
A short part from the lyrics, incase you aren't going to bother to look it up;
"I will be alone with myself tonight, it's in the middle of the night, I went into the city, filled with loss and expectations. Sometimes loneliness is addictive, people that keep talking drive me crazy. They keep talking.
I'm alone with the time. I have lost all my friends. The traffic keeps racing, it's wrong and I am angry. At nobody else but myself. It is a peaceful battle. I have lost all my friends."
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