person i'm working with

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so i got an internship for a theatre program in my town, and i am sosososo grateful. seriously, it's been great.
untillllllllll this new person came in. she's like...a supervisor i guess. she's..ditzy, to put it well. she can't do her make up to save her life which is the first thing that bothered me. and she follows the other intern and i around saying "you need to smile!"
and theeeeeeeen. she said these things. these are literally what she said to me:
"there's a tranny on my softball team. haha, it's a man woman! i mean, we're not supposed to tell...but..."
"i think it's so neat how autistics remember everything! if only we could get in their heads, i know they're actually brilliant people."

and my absolute favorite (sarcasm)
"some kids just deserve to get molested!"


idk
i just needed to talk about this some more. i told my therapist and she said "it sounds to me like she has legitimate mental health problems.."
blah. and i'm stuck with this girl for the next like...two weeks.

There are a lot of intolerant/tactless people in the world. Unfortunately transphobia is rampant in society, as are tactless and poorly informed generalizing comments about ASDs, and utterly tasteless jokes about sexual abuse. I'm sorry you have to deal with her.

Well they say theatre people are eclectic, i think we have a winner.

I feel the need to confront this kind of person. To do that you do not have to be confrontational, just calm and polite questioning of ignorant and stooopid concepts.

She seems to like targeting minority/vulnerable groups: LGBT, ASD, children. I'd report her and express how uncomfortable her comments make you feel.