Posted on 03/08/2015 2:57:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I was kinda being a wise apple with the looks thing but for self employed tradesman i know where every bathroom is in the southland
Can I get a service human and force them to take care of me.....
Oh wait that is slavery / obamacare.....
One is RAD. Lol. Long day.
” I work with a woman who insists that the autism can be spanked out of children”
I have a severely autistic 20 year old son.
When he was about 10 a distant uncle at a family reunion told me that all he needed was “To have his ass busted with a belt”.
I explained that it was neurological disorder and I couldn’t beat the Autism out of him anymore than I could beat the stupid out distant uncles.
I didn’t get anymore helpful advice.
We know so much more now! For example, if my son can chew on something (his chewelry necklace or chewy pencil topper), that very high iq shines through. Twenty years ago he would have been punished for chewing. Good luck and prayers!
Ugh. I might use that line if you don’t mind!
Funnies aside, sometimes such habits bespeak anxiety.
“Ugh. I might use that line if you don’t mind!”
Help yourself. It really shuts those little helpers up.
Crohn’s is a real organic disease. Fibromyalgia, on the other hand, probably is best treated by a mental health professional.
As a side note, I taught him that Barrack Obama is on the three dollar bill. I used to love asking him that in front of my lib relatives!
I hear ya!
Hearing loss is the ultimate “invisible disability”.
Hmmmm....I read the other day that it is successfully being treated as a nerve disorder with a combination of two anti-herpes agents.
I don’t know every circumstance of course.
Dealing with a world out of tune can lead to anxiety. I hope he learns about God (and that God is a whale of a lot more than a presence in church services, something he might have a lot of difficulty dealing with). God can be there when no human can. Nothing human is either too fast or slow for God.
On the secular side there’s a sympathetic song “Ants In My Pants.”
http://gunnarmadsen.bandcamp.com/track/ants-in-my-pants
While the disabilities are invisible, it’s easy to see why. They get a check every month.
The taxpayer who pays for all of this free money for nothing is the only person who is invisible.
When we look at some of doctors’ theories a few centuries ago for things we understand pretty well (well enough to keep people surviving through) now, we have to scratch our heads. Sometimes it’s a little of “both-and.” The idea of a psychiatric medication was itself new until the 1950s.
There is always the temptation to scam, but problems like this are seen in people who would have no known reason to lie, who prove quite conscientious in many things.
Fibromyalgia is not a mental health issue. It can be a very debilitating disease. The worst part is feeling that you are a mental case until you finally get a diagnosis.
I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Also, I would question why the public ever let self aggrandizing politicians talk it into the idea of a public equivalent of charity... all the cost, none of the caring.
I agree with y’all about the invisible disabilities...
Regarding being hearing impaired:
People just don’t get it, they don’t understand that they have to
turn towards the person so their lips can be read
enunciate their words
speak slower
use captions on presentations
use email more than phone
I’ve been severely hearing impaired all my life and the dr says its only going to get worse...
I didn’t read down to your comment, so am pinging you to what I posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3265705/posts?page=39#39
the operative word for hearing impairment is
ISOLATION
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