Caretaker Call

The Caretaker Call was a phone conversation that took place on July 27th, 2023 between one of Daniel's former caretakers and the Daniel Larson Curator whom he had stayed with from Fall 2019 to being kicked out during Spring 2020. After receiving around two comment from someone who claimed to be Daniel's old care providers, the Curator set up a call between the two to discuss what caring, and furthermore, living with Daniel was like. The call contained many details such as Daniel's behavior around the house, more information about the elusive Ryan, who was thought to be one of Daniel's delusions up until this point, his caretakers opinion on the widely popular take that the system had "failed" Daniel, and disgustingly enough, how Daniel had allegedly almost sexually assaulted their physically disabled cat.

The person who claimed to be Daniel's caretaker has yet to be identified, as no name or identifying information about him can be found during this point in time.

Summary

• The caregiver wasn't aware of Daniel’s popularity until last night when he stumbled upon his TikTok videos.
• According to the caregiver, Daniel moved into his house in fall 2019 and got kicked out spring 2020.
• Caregiver was told that Dan doesn't do well with females and that a male provider would be much better for him.
• Caregiver claims that hell broke loose merely 2 months after Daniel moved in.
• He says that if a patient is an adult and their own guardian, they legally can't do anything about the patient refusing medication, therapy or employment. The caregiver notes that Daniel denied all of these, therefore he could not force him to partake in any of these.
• ''When you're working with an individual like Daniel who kind of has this delusional mindset of that he's gonna be famous, all these people love him, he's a movie star/singer, etc., he's just more focused on that and just throws away all the opportunities that are presented to him to help his mental health.'' Caregivers thoughts transcribed verbatim.
• Caregiver says that Bob came over the house multiple times, says that Bob as a person is great and pleasant and cared about Dan's safety but enabled him and had absolutely no idea how to work with someone with a disability.
• During Daniel’s stay the caregiver advocated for him to get SOB(?) therapy which is therapy for people who engage in grooming, potential pedophiles and people with terrible sexual boundaries.
• Caregiver says that Daniel was trying to groom all the other individuals in the home who were much less functioning than him. (He describes Daniel’s grooming behavior as in him manipulating others into doing favors, giving them things to get things in return, sexually grooming people and bribing them.)
• Daniel got arrested at the caregivers house for assaulting his roommate. Caregiver had to restrain and hold him down on the front porch until police got there because he kept trying to bite him. Caregiver says that he has a massive scar on his left forearm from Daniel.
• When the caregiver had to clean Daniel's room out, he found one of his used drumsticks which was all splintered and covered in feces, phone cords covered in feces and a barbie doll of Daniel's which was also covered in feces. He notes that Daniel is a very sexualized individual.
• Caregiver says that all the physically aggressive, emotionally damaged, low functioning and high functioning individuals he took care of had, to some extent, a motivation to do better for themselves, but Daniel was the only one who didn't.
• Caregiver says that Ryan, whom Daniel claims sexually assaulted him in the past, still lives with him. He claims that Ryan had similar sexual behaviors to Daniel, along with noting that Ryan isn't quite as high functioning and doesn't understand his actions as much. He says that Ryan will typically groom people but Daniel being the alpha, as in Daniel's IQ’s being higher than Ryans, would groom him instead.
• There are multiple times when the caregiver would wake up in the middle of the night because Daniel would try to sneak into Ryan's room and the cameras the caregiver put around the house because of Daniel’s unpredictability would go off. This is extremely important, especially with the information that Daniel claims to have been assaulted by Ryan, there is a high chance that he himself was the one who sexually assaulted Ryan.
• He notes that Daniel refused to go to day programs because of his devotion to his fans, claiming he always needed to be there for him.
• Caregiver notes the constant terrible stench emanating from Daniel. Caretaker notes that during the time Daniel stayed with him, Daniel was very big into running and would run 10 miles a day and participate in 5k races and such. Daniel would refuse to take a shower after running, resulting in all the care provider could smell would be sweat and other bodily odors. Caregiver estimates that he might have taken three to four showers in the course of 8 months when he was living with him.
• Caregiver says that there were some weeks when he had to restrain him multiple times in a single day because he was hurting himself, giving more context into Daniels self-harming tendencies. He would bash his head into the wall so much and bleed from his face. One time the care provider had to take him to the hospital because he was doing it so hard that he started bleeding from one of his eyelids.
• Caregiver says that Daniel was obsessed with Macaroni n' cheese and would put holes in the walls if he didn’t get any, which escalated to the point where he had to be restrained.
• Caregiver recounts the one time Daniel went ballistic and threw one of the kitchen chairs at one of his roommates. He even tried grabbing one of the kitchen knives. The caregiver had to hold Daniel on the ground because he kept saying he was going to kill him. From then on the caretaker was not allowed to have sharp objects such as knives and forks out in the open, always having to lock them up whenever Daniel was around.
• The caregiver responds to the multitude of people saying “the system failed him” by acknowledging the fact that while there are issues in the system, it should be noted is that in states like Colorado, where Daniel spent much of his time in, it is the leading state in taking care of individuals with disabilities and the services offered in Colorado are far better than any other state.
• He says that he worked with so many individuals and that it’s incredibly hard to get to the point where Daniel is.
• Caregiver recounts the time when Daniel tried having sex with the caregivers three legged cat, which was 2 years old, an incident which enraged the caregiver immensely. Upon Daniel’s roommate reporting what he saw to the caregiver, he went into the room and saw Daniel putting on his clothes, as if quickly trying to hide something.