Kelly

It doesn't make them less of a person.

It's something that he struggles with.

And I think people could look at somebody like Brian as somebody who's struggling rather than someone to be fearful of.

I did want to, I think, I did think of a scenario that might happen to people where they would be fearful of

somebody somebody with brian's disorder like maybe even taking an uber and if your uber driver is talking to himself you might you might be scared you might be thinking like oh my god he's gonna kill me and i don't blame anyone for thinking like that too i would be i would probably be thinking the same thing because of how media portrays somebody with schizoaffective or schizophrenia but i i would hope people could

refer back to this video if they see it and think like that's somebody's brother or son or family member and that they're struggling and just have more empathy because i know it's it's kind of like easy to judge and poke fun at that but that person is definitely struggling and yeah i just hope that people can have more empathy

Absolutely.

I work now as a behavioral therapist for kids with autism and so I specialize in ABA.

And I connect that to Brian's disorder.

So this is just my way of thinking about it and making sense of everything because I do see some connections with the behaviors of my kids that I work with and Brian, just the different ways to talk to them.

And I think most importantly is to just stay calm and treat

Treat anyone as you would want to be treated and as a person.

With care and compassion.

Yes, definitely.

I think even my kids will say random things and things that just don't make sense.

Even my one client, she thinks the sound of AM is hilarious.

So if you say, it's 3 AM, she will start cracking up.

brian is similar to this where he just starts bursting out laughing or he's just cackling in the corner and i think instead of being like oh my gosh what is he doing like why is he just why is he just sitting there cracking up to himself you can just join join in and say like oh like what's so funny over here what are we laughing about you know i think

Yeah, just treating somebody with a mental illness or disorder as a person and giving them the empathy that they deserve.

Yeah, and being patient too.