Published on 12, July, 2020
Again I have been kept awake, this time by my neighbour bloody coughing of all things! Excuse the language but I am angry. Far worse things could come out but are not fit for this forum.
Two nights ago, I kept on being kept awake by my neighbour's deep, husky cough, then the next night students woke me up at 4am by talking loudly outside my flat, and today I could hear my neighbour again.
Now, it is no-one's fault if they suffer from a cough, we all do from time to time, but I should not have to hear it!. The walls must be paper thin at my ground floor flat - there is only one neighbour above me, and is Council owned.
Thankfully I am going home to my parents for the weekend, where I am never woken up by neighbour's coughing - it is a semi-detached. I do sometimes hear the neighbour cough, but because she is not directly above me it is very faint, and I don't seem to hear it at night-time.
Ear-plugs don't work so my only solution is to put my fingers in my ears in order to get some sleep. This is uncomfortable, and I now have sore ears, but otherwise I would have to listen to such a horrible noise. The sound of coughing, by the way, makes me stressed straight away, probably because I have OCD. It is one of my trigger noises.
Am so annoyed, and hate the fact that homes are not built with proper, thick walls.
If you wrongly attribute your brother's behaviour to his ASC then of course people will question this. This doesn't mean that people will be upset at you talking about what your brother is supposed to have done, it's wrongly attributing it to Asperger's, especially in the style you did so, that people won't take to.
You said yourself that he has "other issues", which again, you didn't want to discuss. I repeat, Asperger's is not a condition that makes someone violent. Individuals still have their own personality and may have other co-morbid conditions that do account for the violence. You admitted your brother had suffered for 20 years at the hands of an incompetent psychiatrist, coupled with his "other issues" don't you think you should start apportioning blame correctly?
Coming on here and trying to rile people up will never get you any support.