04-07-2003, 10:43 PM | #101 |
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I know what you mean. Some kids are awful! My oldest daughter is mentally handicapped. There were some years, where she had to put up with certain kids, in the mainstream classroom, and on the bus, that were a nightmare! I wanted to scream and cry at the same time. I'm always leery of "new" situations at school, or work for her. You never know what whacko things some people will say. What she hates the most is being ignored though. The few people that go out of their way to be understanding and actually friendly are saints! I figure they must have someone in their family who is "different", and they realize there is no reason to be afraid of "different" people. They are very lonely.
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04-07-2003, 10:48 PM | #102 |
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Not right. I'm not afraid of them at all, but I don't have any in my family. There's no reason I can think of why any one would be afraid of a handicapped person.
EDIT: On second thought, if it was someone was handicapped in such a way that they got violent, I suppose so, but other than that, no.
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04-07-2003, 10:53 PM | #103 |
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Well good for you! I wish you knew my darling, sweet daughter!
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04-07-2003, 11:24 PM | #104 |
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04-07-2003, 11:39 PM | #105 |
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Please be patient with the littler kids, tho, when they ask questions. If kids ask "what happened to HIM?" I just answer "He was born that way, and his name is xxxx; do you wanna play with him?" ("xxxx" is because I'm a paranoid mom and don't want my kids' names on the Internet!) Then they usually are cool about it. But I can hardly blame them for staring, there aren't many kids like my son around! I just try to explain on their level. But it is VERY tiring getting stared at - I hate it, altho I can understand it. Sadly, he has been called names, too. Now there is NO excuse for that! Once it happened on a field trip, when we were at a public park, and I saw several of his classmates digging a very deep hole right before we left. When I asked them about the hole, they said that some mean kid had called my son some mean names, and they were digging the hole to trap him in so they could beat him up!! Cute! and I appreciate their defending my son, too! But I did explain that the mean kid's action didn't justify their beating him up (but mentally I was thinking "yeah, go GET him!!") The worst was what a doctor said to me once - so bad, it was funny! I was at a doctor's office holding my son, who was just under a year old at the time, and this doctor stops and looks at him and said "What happened to HIM?" I was SOOOOO tempted to say "well, dr., I was abducted by aliens when I was pregnant....." and concoct a ridiculous story, but I just decided to give a short truthful answer instead, so he would leave!
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04-07-2003, 11:43 PM | #107 |
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a little annoyance - not being rich enough to fly all the Entmooters to some wonderful place where we could all meet each other and each other's families!
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04-07-2003, 11:46 PM | #108 |
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Youve got it exactly right Rian, I would like to meet most of you,
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04-07-2003, 11:47 PM | #109 |
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Oh, Rian, I didn't realise your son is in a wheelchair. My little annoyances seem very silly now...
You know, I imagine all us 'mooters in a room meeting each other for the first time. It would be funny, because I'd think of people by their nicknames. We would have to wear nametags with our real names and nicknames. I can just imagine saying: Hi Beard of Pants!
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04-07-2003, 11:47 PM | #110 |
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Yes, that would be nice. Any 'Mooting billionaires?
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04-08-2003, 01:08 PM | #111 |
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Meeting other mooters would be nice. That's the only reason why I once in a while wish for living on the other side of the Atlantic ocean . I believe there was a real-life entmoot in 2001, I read something about on the Tolkientrail somewhere and I recall a thread a long time ago about another entmoot but I never heard how that ended. But I suppose we'd need a big hall then. The 'moot has grown quite a bit since.
little annoyance: Mother interfering with my wardrobe. Sheesh! Sorry to hear about your son, RÃ*an. But with a mother like you he's bound to be all right in the end!
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04-08-2003, 04:20 PM | #113 |
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She lives by Lothlorien?
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04-08-2003, 04:35 PM | #114 |
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thanks, guys, for the kind words about my son - he's really a cutie and has a great attitude and we can do all sorts of fun things with him coz his legs don't get in the way! (you ought to see him roll down hills - he's like a little cannonball! You know how most people's legs get tangled up and slow them down - well, his don't!) But I'd give him my legs in a second ...
I'd post a pic but I'm a paranoid mom about Internet stuff Y'know, I think Sween once said that he was pretty wealthy and didn't even have to work unless he wanted to, or something along those lines... hey Sween, do you want to invite us all over to a baby shower for little Amy Rose?
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04-08-2003, 05:27 PM | #116 |
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I'm sorry to hear about your son.
In my Hebrew school class, and he's got some sort of disease (I'm not sure what it's called). He's in a wheelchair and can't really control his movement, which includes his voice. So sometimes he just makes random noises. Everyone at my synagogue is very fine with him. He also goes to my school, and it's a different story there, unfortunately. He's a really great kid and his dad is one of the nicest people in the world. If only people would stop being stupid.
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BTW, we like to joke too (altho too much would be obnoxious, or it would be obnoxious from strangers) - just this morning while we were getting ready for school, my husband kept saying jokingly to him "C'mon, get your shoes on! Hurry up or you'll be late!" (he only wears socks!) He just goes "Dad!!! I don't have shoes!!!"
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I'm annoyed right now because my little brother (eight) has unearthed an old tape of my mom's filled with early sixties pop music. *shakes surfing songs from ear*
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