Some of My brother’s schizophrenic dialogue this week:
Heard from waiter on Tuesday … “Suck me to my face”
We planned on taking his car in to the shop …. I am always reliable and do what I say I’m going to do … but he had to make this comment: “If you weren’t going to call back about the car, I was trying to plan out what I was going to do … “
Lost City – movie tonight
Brother: I heard Sandra Bullock say during the movie ‘your wide and that’s why I don’t hang out with you’
I ask him: so you think that’s why Sandra Bullock won’t hang out with you?
Brother: Yes, that’s what she said during the movie
Flo in Progressive Insurance ad with the sister and nephew … Flo says regarding her nephew: “he looks more like dad every time I see him” … My Brother asks wide eyed: “why would they say that!”
As if the nephew was the dad’s son as well … as if he was having sex with his own daughter … I had to explain the ad to my brother that that was definitely not what they were talking about
We went to have pizza afterwards and a woman walked in with her two young daughters … he comments: When She walked by with the kids she said “You Bastard”
my reply: I didn’t hear that …
Brother: You have to read lips …
When we were leaving the pizza joint I held the door open for another girl coming in … my brother got upset because he heard her say: “I’m sorry… I’m sorry your such a jerk”
He repeated what she said, in a loud angry voice…
He said he was just sticking up for his sister because he doesn’t like it when people talk to me like that
I explained that she did not say that and that it was the devil putting words in his head and whispering these crazy thoughts to him because I know he can understand that language… I told him it wasn’t his fault that he hears these things
This is a ‘normal’ night out with him
It is so hard to be around this kind of insanity several days a week … but I have made a decision not to get angry… Sometimes it’s easy to get angry because it’s so consistently ludicrous …
He asked me if I was mad at him and I told him no… It’s not his fault and I thought we had a good night … The movie was very funny …
I’m just asking God to help me take it one day at a time … and to help me figure it all out… How to handle him… How to help him… How to love him …
This is all teaching me a greater amount of love and patience … thank you Lord for the lessons …