...I've been doing this job now for a few years and if nothing else, it's been a dearth of "interesting" people, places and factual scenarios. When I first started doing this, I would try to figure out why people did what they did. After all, most of the time the things people were either alleged to have done, or actually DID do, just didn't mesh with logic or common sense. Why would a person throw an alligator skeleton at a one-legged man? Why would a person switch seats with the driver of a vehicle when he/she is drunk and the actual "driver" hadn't been drinking at all? (a fairly common occurrence). Why would someone think that his neighbor is secretly making him commit petty crimes? Why would someone use a plastic and metal coffee mug as a weapon? Why would a person claim that HE has had a sex change and that HE is now pregnant with Twins and allegedly carry around a Doppler to prove it? Surprisingly enough, only one of these individuals is/was a CLIENT of mine (guy charged with throwing an alligator skeleton). The rest are just things I've either read about or heard.
These are the things I used to try and figure out. I would bust my melon scouring all the usual suspects: intelligence, financial situation, childhood, familial relationships and upbringing, socio-economic position, employment, etc. And after doing this, I've come to realize that even if I'm able to make a good, reasoned judgement regarding people's unwillingness to fit the mold, it's never a certainty. So in the end, after going through the trouble to understand, I'm left with no real answers. So now I've stopped trying to figure it out altogether. Instead, I have a new fall-back..."Maybe he/she is just really weird." And this seems to be most people's MO.
I'm not being thorough or seeking enlightenment at all, but likewise, I'm not being judgmental. Some people like ball-gags and bullwhips in bed...I think that's weird. Just like a dude using another person's checkbook to buy a new car is really weird. Some people think Monet paintings are "pretty". I think that's weird. Just as it is when someone alleges he/she cannot work, but at the same time is employed as a semi-professional wrestler....weird. Sometimes things aren't explainable. Sometimes people just don't fall within an accepted range...an enumerated "normal". Instead, they're just really...fucking...weird.
