week 2 dq response Alicia Sprague 

I can absolutely guarantee to you, that fiction post from him made me extremely uncomfortable. I have a background with an adult in my life as a child had similar “issues”, and on the heavy side of questionable adult boundary issues.

But I am used to feeling uncomfortable in classes, I usually have to hold a huge amount of myself back in classes. During my undergrad degree, my usual dq post was 1200 words, at UOP each student is required to turn in about 6 to 12 posts a week every week for 5 weeks. I was criticized on several occasions for writing simply too much. All of my posts were on topic, but my posts are usually very long, detailed, complex, layered, and very enjoyable for me to write. But of the 250-500 words which are wanted, I turn in 1200 words.

It is also clear in that fiction post that the person is going back into a manic stage, but is entirely unaware of the sentence structure is turning manic. The last sentence is absolutely key. The last sentence being “I can hardly wait to get off the meds”, which is a straight out of the dsm for feeling great but going into a manic stage. Which means the behavior is very likely about to get much more manic and more inappropriate. My focus would not be on the comfortableness of that fictional student, but to shore up support for the others in the class that person did offend. Once intimacy boundaries have been crossed, it is extremely difficult to uncross those lines.

Contact him privately and inform him in very clear but not harsh way, his comments were inappropriate and he is to keep all future comments in the G rating area. People going manic will likely not pay attention to legal ease, but will pay attention to visual learning. Keep it G rated, the brain can process Disney, and apply that to their boundaries without being offended.