... not nightmares by my description, more like "bad dreams" and rarely now, I've graduated in '77 but.... my most common was forgetting the combination to the...
... Sometimes nightmares, but less as I've gotten older. For a long time, I would have this overwhelming feeling of dread if something reminded me of these...
... Okay, new thread. How many here continue to have nightmares about their mainstream schooling? I understand their are standard school dreams one has in any...
The following simultaneous press release is issued in the interest of accurate representation and full participation of autistic people in society. AUTISM...
... magnesium citrate and they immediately stopped. In AS-and-Proud-of-it@yahoogroups.com, "supersport1975" ... things ... alot ... pediatrician ... function ...
Thanks for the note. I am going to wait a few weeks and see if things improve (coming off the Zyaban). But what you write below sounds alot like me.. Thanks...
... only ... seem ... Self-advocacy means standing up for one's own rights without support, facilitation or other buzzwords. I try to do that, but like most...
... Or still experience -- a lot of the kids around here used to think it was really fun to drive me to overload and watch me bang my head (I don't expose...
... Who says you need literacy to write an email? I know a guy who's considered "severely mentally retarded", who spent the first 30 years of his life in a...
... Nearly all of the support I receive is for cognitive aspects of doing things, not physical ones. ... The law should be changed then. ... I consider myself...
... There IQ or self-care skills also have little to do with their leadership skills. If someone uses a wheelchair, and needs someone to help them go to the...
But insulting him because he has some difficulty with his words, is to subject him to the sort of playground ridicule some of us experienced and therefore feel...
Personally from what I have read on this list and on that evidence (the only available to me at this time) my opinion is that you are doing a great disservice...
Look I think we've established that GW Bush does what his handlers tell him. So if he lied about the real motives for invading Iraq (which IMHO is obviously...
Neil: W. is not mentally retarded. He is too arrogant and a person with retardation would never lie about WMD and go to war with Iraq. Kathy Grant [Non-text...
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... I see the point. I do agree. However, one must have some way to insult the president. Insulting the president is one of life's great pleasures. Anne...
... If I called President Bush a "nigger", I think most blacks would feel that was inappropriate and insulting - to them, not just Bush. Just because Bush...
... I have one staff member who doesn't have any other clients, and a couple backup staff members who have several. What on *earth* does that have to do with...
... I did not intend to insult peole with a genuine intellectual disability, but merely Prez Dubya Bush. Second I think terms are only useful in as far as they...
For th lst 18 months I have worked alongside people with a broad spectrum of learning disabilities and other support workers. They talk endlessly of social...
... Exactly what is your experience? You state "in my experience." Do you know the people that Amanda quoted? Do you see yourself as someone with "an...
... I've seen both. I've seen people being manipulated, and I've also seen people standing up for their rights (and yelling at the people who tried to...
In my experience self-advoacy of people with an intellectual handicap nearly always requires not just the input of specially trained social care professionals,...