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• Alex
  • What is the proper response to his accusations and threats? How do I show love to someone who doesn’t recognize love and doesn’t speak or behave appropriately for human society?
    • I told Alex he couldn’t take ⅓ of the family’s bagels for himself and when he called most of the family “so fat they don’t need to eat” I took away his stash of bagels and only allowed him to have the two he had already started toasting.
    • Should I make sure we go shopping today for him to get food or should I put the money in his account and tell him he can go get food with it when he wants to?
      • Unfortunately I don’t trust that he’ll actually use the money for food if I put it in his account. Should I leave him the ability to waste that money on non-food?
  • At what point do I turn him out to fend for himself?
    • The point of turning him out would be to demonstrate that he doesn’t have the right to be bombastic and abusive, especially when he claims the right to make his own rules.
    • I assume that it will come to that point, whenever that may be. At the moment I envision putting his things in the van (so that we can fit his bike) and telling him that I will leave him someplace that offers services for the unhoused unless he has another place he would prefer me to take him to.
    • Hopefully, assuming it happens, it will take place when the weather is mild.
  • I feel calm but not hopeful

Action items

1. Take Alex shopping for food today.
2. Inform Alex that he need not bother to ask for any Wi-Fi extensions like he got last night until he is consistently taking his medications on his own.