If jokes weren’t going to work, I was doomed. There was only one other thing to try
“You have to help us,” Sari’s mother insisted. “We’ve tried everything. All the therapists say that if she’s not going to talk, they can’t do anything. But she refuses to talk to them or to us or to anyone. The only people she ever talks to are her friends, on the phone, late at night.”
I tried to convince Mrs. Miller that in this situation, our best tools were patience and acceptance.
“You mean we do nothing?” Mrs. Miller demanded.
“Actively,” I added. “We actively do nothing. It’s different from passively doing nothing. It means you calm down and accept that right now, Sari is refusing to talk. When she’s ready and feels comfortable, she’ll open up. We have some theories about why she’s doing this, but right now all we can do is wait and accept.”
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