I have a friend who’s a swim coach. She was saying that one of the pools where she coaches hired an autistic lifeguard. The problem with that is when she asked him to put the ladder in so some of the older swimmers could climb out of the pool without getting scraped up, the kid froze. My friend ended up doing it herself, but the point is…
I have a friend who’s a swim coach. She was saying that one of the pools where she coaches hired an autistic lifeguard. The problem with that is when she asked him to put the ladder in so some of the older swimmers could climb out of the pool without getting scraped up, the kid froze. My friend ended up doing it herself, but the point is that what will that lifeguard do when (because it’s not an “if” when you’re around a pool) something out of the norm happens? Because certain autistics struggle with anything that isn’t routine. Someone could die, and they’d never admit it was because they hired someone who shouldn’t be in that position in the first place?
I have a friend who’s a swim coach. She was saying that one of the pools where she coaches hired an autistic lifeguard. The problem with that is when she asked him to put the ladder in so some of the older swimmers could climb out of the pool without getting scraped up, the kid froze. My friend ended up doing it herself, but the point is that what will that lifeguard do when (because it’s not an “if” when you’re around a pool) something out of the norm happens? Because certain autistics struggle with anything that isn’t routine. Someone could die, and they’d never admit it was because they hired someone who shouldn’t be in that position in the first place?
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