Atypical antipsychotics are prescribed for sleep, so this isn't unusual.
Considering that this behavior is entirely voluntary, that none of this counseling gets Andy his precious butt wiping and enabling of his behavior, all this mental health stuff is not going to work. He may learn to pretend to be good, but that's all this is going to accomplish. Andy is VERY good at learning how to behave in a certain way to get what he wants, and I think not only is counseling going to be a waste of time and money, but it will make a few shrinks question their choice in employment.
Morphine has only like 5% oral bioavailability. It's utterly pointless to administer morphine in pill form and I don't understand why doctors prescribe it. Even codeine is more effective in pill form and less stigmatized. Hell, you can get weak codeine and Tylenol pills over the counter in many Commonwealth countries like Canada and the UK
The Andy archive uploaded the recording of Andy attacking Tom. Y'know, the attack that's kept him from re-entering the home?
2:44 the fat cow claims he "doesn't understand time."
If you listen to the court recording released today... Yes. He does expect that.
You can familiarize yourself with specific tests, but when it's known that you'll do this the clinician can use a battery of different tests including ones that you're not familiar with. Andy's case in particular is helped by the fact that Andy is a generally unintelligent person, so his efforts at familiarization aren't consistent, simply because he's too dumb to keep up the act.
He's actually complained about the fact that a doctor refused to diagnose him, because he did, infact, memorize one of the tests. I'll look up which rumble video mentions that later.
He's seen this criticism so now he makes sure to say something along the lines of :
while there are brain scans, like MRI and all that can show some structural differences in many autistic people, but that alone does not mean a person is autistic, sadly most of the testing for autism is largely based on developmental history (documented), milestone achievement and levels; behaviors, social , and emotional responses, along with learning and cognitive testing to observe the way the person processes and uses information and thoughts, and additional testing can go from there based on what they observe along the process.
He says that, but doesn't seem to realize that echolalia would be more along the lines of shouting commercial jingles and simple limericks at random. Trying to pass off his extremely specific legal and medical jargon as echolalia is a sure sign to anyone with a half hour primer on the subject that he is 100% faking, let alone actual shrinks.
He says every time he says something that's too smart, too relevant. Every time he recites a law, every time he talks about why someone who's been sexually abused as a child would need diapers, he'll then quickly add, "andy jus saying dees things, andy don undewstanw because of awtism!" It's like a bad poker tell.
Yea, it's super common. But it's very likely the doctor killed two birds with one stone by prescribing him for the antipsychotic to take at night after it was observed that it made him sleepy when taken in the mornings. Some docs don't care to get into it with certain patients about the necessity for taking certain meds so they will try and avoid the confrontation entirely, and given Andy's frequent noncompliance about taking meds/not throwing them away, I would bet this is the case.
Ooh, yeah.
And not that you can't mess yourself up with antipsychotics, it's still less of a risk than giving Andy a jar full of benzos, for the risk of OD and the risk of them getting stolen due to his sketchy lifestyle. (And cumulative DEA review for the prescriber.)
...there are pictures of his crotch...?
