04-21-2020, 11:17 AM
I'm not sure if anything I have to say will help, as I am no expert either. But I can relate what we did when I worked with emotionally-disturbed teens. We had all sorts in this "special" classroom, and most all of the students were high IQ, with anything from paranoid schizophrenic to obsessive-compulsive to generally disruptive. The way we handled various inappropriate behaviors was simple: don't react to "bad" behavior (and this was a contract we made between us—the teachers—and a particular student as to what constituted inappropriate behavior) with privileges taken away when the "bad" behaviors accumulated to a certain point during the day. So I agree with Agua that feeding into this person's obsessions by giving him more people to talk to about his obsessions would not be productive.
I would suggest being kind but firm, and detached from emotional involvement.
I would suggest being kind but firm, and detached from emotional involvement.