An autistic woman eating at a restaurant is struggling to cope with the notion of other people serving her, it has been reported.
Kelsey Dacey, 37, decided to treat herself to dinner at her local Italian, but when waiter Graeme Hart, 29, laid down her cutlery, Dacey felt the need to emphasise just how wrong it was that he had to do anything for her at all.
Dacey said: “The fact that he has to bring me my food is so… wrong. He’s working eight-hour shifts on his feet, just so he can lay my plate down in front of me and sweep up the crumbs after I’m gone! As though I’m some hoity-toity lady of leisure who cannot lift a finger for herself. For shame!”
“Other people seem to be ordering with no problem, as though they were feudal lords bossing about their helpless serfs. But I’m still part of the issue, aren’t I? If I’d just eaten at home, he wouldn’t have to serve anyone. He could go to art school, or hike the Appalachian Trail, or do any number of things that are infinitely more fulfilling than this. If only our society was better. If only I were better.”
Hart said: “I brought her the bill and she burst into tears. She kept saying, ‘It’s not enough, is it, Graeme?’.”
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