"Greg Morrow" > wrote

>Nancy Young wrote:

>> I really don't know how people get to that state. Even more
>> amazing to see cases where two people like that find each other.
>> It's sad. I used to work with a woman like that. She really didn't
>> get what was weird about the filth she lived in. I mean, she had
>> fleas! They finally had to fumigate her cube at work.


>He was highly intelligent, had Asperger's Syndrome, meaning no social
>skills. I guess being a biologist and all he thought everything was
>"relative", since everything is "organic" in nature...including the
>vermin problem.

>Mercifully he left soon after that...

Ack. I'm sure not all the roaches followed.

>Knew someone else, fairly "normal" - seeming. A friend of hers was
>dragooned into taking care of her cat over xmas holiday. The gal's
>apt. was a real filth hole, stuff stacked up, fridge used as a garbage
>can, cat poo all over the place. The housesitter called up the gal's
>sister and had her come up, the sitch wound up with the person getting
>some psychiatric intervention...

>Did the person not think that the filth in her apt. would NOT be
>noticed by the housesitter...!!!??? Jeez...

We could be talking about the same person. She really had no
sense of shame, if that's the right word. No problem telling anyone
who'd listen how she let her cats and dogs go wherever they wanted
in the house, and if she found it, she'd clean it up ... maybe. And the
stories she'd tell would be even worse than that, far worse.