We've all been there. The college roommate who pulled A's in Organic Chemistry and yet asked the dumbest questions about the world around her. Or the guy at work who was brilliant with numbers and could build a database in his sleep, but when it came to those around him, he had zero social skills and always seemed to say the most inappropriate things and the wrong time. Today I encountered our very intelligent, yet very dumb speech therapist, we will call her Ms. K.
Ms. K works with speech delayed preschoolers for the entire school district. All kinds of kids on the Autism spectrum come to see her, kids with SPD, and of course those that are just speech delayed. So the words that came out of her mouth today kind of took me off guard.
So there I was, waiting in the lobby for Mini to come out of his speech session. Normally we play a game where I pretend not to see him come through the door and then he surprises me at the last minute. Well today was different. Ms. K wanted to talk to me and was trying to get my attention, so I looked up. BIG MISTAKE. Mini threw himself to the floor, crying and screaming in the lobby of the school. I ran over to pick him up to move him out of the walkway so he wouldn't get stepped on. Then Ms. K asked the question I never thought that I would hear from a children's specialist: "what's wrong with him?" Um, huh? Really? You know his condition, you have his IEP, and you know that he's prone to meltdowns. She went on to tell me about Mini's progress and where he's hitting his goals, but honestly I didn't hear what she was telling me. All I could think about was how this intelligent woman could be so dumb.
Yikes. As a specialist, you'd think she'd know better--it being her specialty and all.
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