Do mental disorders in people turn you on?

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So what is the correct model like? And where do you get this? I am much curious. . .

A child is not an it.

The best way to teach is by example. By example, one teaches one's children that violence is not an acceptable reaction to stress; by example, one teaches one's children that when someone else hits you, it's worth talking it out and discovering what was really wrong instead of hitting them back; by example, one teaches one's children that it is never right to do violence to those with no power to defend themselves.

If an eleven year old- at an age where ideallisim tends to be very strong- hasn't absorbed these values already, the parents probably haven't been setting a very good example.

It was a long time ago, I'll have to do some research. What I can tell you is that there is an intervention continuum.

Relationship models<------>Contractual models<------>Behavioral models
Listening<---------------------->Negotiating<---------------------->Asserting
Low intervention<------------------------------------------->High intervention
---------------------------------Typically best for--------------------------------
Adults<------------------------->Teenagers<------------------------->Children
Corprol punishment is on the extreme end of the continuum, to the right of the Assertiveness model, which is to the right of the Behavior Modification model. Contractual models include the Reality Therapy model. Relationship models include Rogerian Therapy, Reflective Listening, and Transactional Analysis. There are a total of 8 models in the continuum, and 4 decision making models for determining which to use. This all came from a course called "Programs and Practices in Elementary Education." It could easily have been called "Classroom Behavior Management." I've found what I learned to be really useful IRL at work and here on this site. Banning a member, not a troll, represents a step in the Corprol Punishment model, and is not the last step. I only resort to that after I have tried other techniques from other models.

i dont mind someone who may have AS or perhapse depression, but if they r all out nutz, sorry... Not being shallow, i just want a nice stable life, someone i can trust, someone who is predictable, and if i cant have that then thats rough, especally cause someday i wanna have kids, and dont want them to live like that, nor will i live like that. I like stability!

MrMark- do you have any idea who came up with these models and where I might read about them more?

Meanwhile I'll have a gander at my own teaching theory books. . .

Someone should slap you for that.

Don't worry. He's probably not much of a Brad Pitt himself. *runs*

I don't know about being attracted to mentally ill people. But I sure seem to be a magnet for 'em. I swear, there can be fifty other women around me and some homeless dude talking incoherently to himself wearing those plastic things that go around soda cans (true story) will make a bee line toward me.

If I go out, I'm invisible to all the "normal" men. But the mentally ill, homeless, crack heads, anyone who's been cast off from society, speak to me or try to hit on me. And I know it's not my imagination because I've watched how they acted with other people and they ignored them. But as soon as I came around.....

I'm not a good-looking person.

Anyway, only a few mental disorders would turn me on, like AS or ADHD. Most of them, however, like Schitzophrenia or Depression, I would definitely have a hard time dealing with.

Still, there was a chapter in Sociology about the social problem with mental disorders and how these folks were discriminated. In fact, I got a taste of discrimination one night when my brother got a new girlfriend and she started acting a little strange towards me. I was playing video games late one night when the two of them began to get a bit hyper. I told them to stop and she started to ask about me to my brother while I was in the room. Now for me, that was just rude, so I told her that if she was going to talk about me, she was going to say it in my face. Well, my brother told her that I had AS and it was a form of Autism, since she didn't understand it. Anyway, the following morning, she apologized for the running around, but after that, when I clarified that she was to talk about me at my face, she said that I was strange, annoying, and that she didn't like me. I was really close to kicking her out of my house, but I didn't want to fight my brother so I said nothing. That was a few weeks ago. Well, my mom, about a week or so ago, told her EVERYTHING about AS and how I think and that she needed to apologize to me directly. Well, it's been a week and all I get out of that bigot are dirty looks and no apologies for her insulting and discriminative comment she made to me that day.

Anyway, even though some mental disorders don't turn me on while some make me prejudice, I can't ignore the outright bigotry against those who are different because they don't have a choice. It's just that it's hard enough to relate to NTs. I would rather relate to someone with my brothers' disorder, ADHD, my mom's disorder, ADD, and ESPECIALLY my disorder, AS. I'm highly thinking about going into psychomusicology and helping those with Autism, AS, and any other PDD.

By the way, LOOKS SHOULDN'T COUNT!