There is an opposite show, called High Potential, to the one mentioned with the autistic investigator politely feeding breadcrumbs to the official detective. (Sorry, don’t know that one, but Psych would probably be a kindred spirit to it — highly observant person pretends to be a psychic while helping the police.)
High Potential kicks off with a neurodivergent-coded cleaner noticing a key error on a police murderboard and adding a note/correction. The police are pissed but follow up on both how the note got there and its contents. Amusing bad relations between the cleaner and the assigned detective ensue, as they have complementary strengths which also cause arguments. The cleaner is not willing to take a backseat…except when she has just screwed up and the detective gets through to her about *why* that screwup creates a real problem for solving and prosecuting the case. Procedure just for procedure’s sake doesn’t make sense to her.
Side note: One topic I am interested in hopefully finding more perspectives on is PDA. Specifically adult children of PDA parents and how various parent/child dynamics have managed.
I'm a psych nurse, in a clinic. I really don't like my current job for a lot reasons discussed above. One small victory I get to accomplish regularly though is "chart corrections." A whole lot less patients with flagged charts. Are they aggressive, really, nope not anymore. I've worked in a State Hospital, I know what an aggressive person looks like. Also... magically, eye contact disappeared from the chart template when I started working here.... strange....
So here's an absolutely disgusting but surprisingly useful phrase to use at the doctor... "oh yeah, my husband/brother/father/random human with a penis was actually wondering if it might be (insert condition i have extensively researched here), and I promised I'd ask what you thought."
Because sometimes the doc will listen to the (possibly imaginary) dude in your life more than than they'll listen to you. But if that's what you gotta navigate to get care, well, this works really well.
There is an opposite show, called High Potential, to the one mentioned with the autistic investigator politely feeding breadcrumbs to the official detective. (Sorry, don’t know that one, but Psych would probably be a kindred spirit to it — highly observant person pretends to be a psychic while helping the police.)
High Potential kicks off with a neurodivergent-coded cleaner noticing a key error on a police murderboard and adding a note/correction. The police are pissed but follow up on both how the note got there and its contents. Amusing bad relations between the cleaner and the assigned detective ensue, as they have complementary strengths which also cause arguments. The cleaner is not willing to take a backseat…except when she has just screwed up and the detective gets through to her about *why* that screwup creates a real problem for solving and prosecuting the case. Procedure just for procedure’s sake doesn’t make sense to her.
Side note: One topic I am interested in hopefully finding more perspectives on is PDA. Specifically adult children of PDA parents and how various parent/child dynamics have managed.
I'm a psych nurse, in a clinic. I really don't like my current job for a lot reasons discussed above. One small victory I get to accomplish regularly though is "chart corrections." A whole lot less patients with flagged charts. Are they aggressive, really, nope not anymore. I've worked in a State Hospital, I know what an aggressive person looks like. Also... magically, eye contact disappeared from the chart template when I started working here.... strange....
So here's an absolutely disgusting but surprisingly useful phrase to use at the doctor... "oh yeah, my husband/brother/father/random human with a penis was actually wondering if it might be (insert condition i have extensively researched here), and I promised I'd ask what you thought."
Because sometimes the doc will listen to the (possibly imaginary) dude in your life more than than they'll listen to you. But if that's what you gotta navigate to get care, well, this works really well.