How do I deal with an angry autistic coworker?

Anonymous

I work for a commercial cleaning company, and I recently started working with an autistic man about a month ago. There is a friend of his who calls him sometimes while we are working. It's about dumb shit tbh. Like, this guy repeats himself a lot. We live in Oregon and there is a wild fire going on, and he really wants it to rain. He kept talking Bout how it was going to rain on Friday, and Saturday. I guess that's what his wheather app said, so he was in a good mood. Near the end of our shift, his friend calls him to tell him that its not going to rain on Friday and Saturday. He loses it, and hangs up on her to look at his weather app. She was right. He was mostly mad because she calls him while he's trying to work. He was like "im tired of stupid megan calling me at work. I can't wait until she moves to texas!". Then he would just repeat what he always says, but he would use a real stern voice, and almost yell for the first word of his sentence, and then talk normally. It was kinda scary, I'm not gonna lie. I was pretty much quiet, except for when he asked me a question. He was still nice to me, but he was just extremely frustrated. I didn't really know what to say, and I was afraid he'd get mad at me if I tried to calm him down. My brother has anger issues and he takes his anger out on the people who are trying to calm him down, so I was afraid this guy was the same.

How do I deal with an angry autistic coworker?
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