"Hi Stacey!" He stretches his hand out for a hand shake. I notice very quickly the buzzer he's trying to conceal. This is one of my personal boundaries: do not come at me with the agenda to get ANY sort of reaction from me! Don't "try" to make me laugh or scream or jump out of my skin. Do not try to trick me or impress me with magic tricks. I'm not your plaything and your discontent with my present state of being is your problem. If I need to feel my sadness or anger or frustration at any moment, do not try to take that from me because you want to see me smile so you don't feel so bad.......and if you do just want a playmate, get consent!
"No, thank you Gilbert, I don't like my hand getting buzzed like that".
He pushed it into my back anyways.
He did not respect my clear no.
Gilbert and I sat down for the talk.
Sympathetically: "Adults are always doing things to you even after you say 'no', aren't they Gilbert?"
He nods.
"It doesn't feel good does it?".
"No."
"I don't blame you. I don't like it either. You don't have to be like them, did you know that? You can respect other people's 'no'."
He thought about it and nodded; true, it occurs to him.
"Do you think that from now on you can respect it when I say 'no'?"
Big grin from Gilbert, nodding of the head.
"O.K., then...buzzer hand shake on it"..the damn grin! lol He wound that little thing up and up and up and proudly held out his hand and we "buzzer shook" on it, lol
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