Outing=Anxiety, but why?
The dominant theories right now include
- He’s too warm [makes me feel a tad guilty]
- He’s bored [that applies even more to staying home]
- He’s genuinely afraid our aide won’t come back for him
- He feels trapped in the wheelchair [a situation in which he has even less agency than on his walker]
- A mispreception that the park is crowded [and all those people will interfere with our getting home]
- Annoyance at having the other person [our aide] with us [he has a touch of paranoia over the aide’s role]
- Resentment over the aide [he always resisted having a male caregiver]
- Jealousy [“I thought it was just you and me”]
- All of the above
this is our life 