This happened to me twice. I have two daughters w/ severe autism, one day while one of them was at the office she picked up the phone and dialed 911 because they learned to dial 911 in school. I walk by her desk and see she has the phone to her ear, which wasn't uncommon because sometimes she'd pick it up and have scripted conversations w/ herself. I hear her answering questions without her asking herself the questions, which was the usual pattern. I take the phone and ask who's there "this is 911 dispatch". I told them the situation and they said they understood, but procedure is they need to send a cruiser out. I told them to be prepared that my daughter tends to give rote answers which may (probably) won't be an actual answer to their question (a la Rainman when Tom Cruise yells "He's answering a question I asked ten minutes ago!"). Female cop came, very understanding, ended without incident.
A month or two later same thing happened (have since disconnected the phone at her desk), they said the were sending a cruiser out. I waited 15 mins but we were closed so finally we just left the office. Didn't hear anything from the police after that.
I'm terrified of police encounters with my girls. One tends to answer "yeah" to almost all questions, the other "no". You can imagine what could happen if the police asks "is someone harming you? "are you feeling safe? Etc. One of them will often change her answer if you repeat a question since she thinks she may have given the wrong answer. Lots of things could go wrong if the cops question my kids although I imagine that eventually they'd catch on that my daughters answers aren't reliable. Not overly worried if we ever ended up in a courtroom because if you know how to ask them questions you can get any answer you want out of them, and I could coach a lawyer to ask questions in a manner that a jury would understand the answers aren't reliable, but it would still be a major headache.
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clown show.
