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methinks I doth protest too much! by d.- on 2002-01-10 12:46:11

2002 has started off with the same old CRAP!! following me right into the goddamn new year! -- apparently I owe some taxes from 1997 (plus interest!) Well they're just going to have to pull it out of my ASS!! as I'm gainfully unemployed and with no prospects as of yet... sigh... Other bad news from another state agency but I really can't share this with you -- I'm just trying to give you an idea of what ghosts and demons I am fighting right now... (yes, dear, but do they CARE?) Anywho, I've lost almost all interest in this 'thing' (what's it called?) -- oh yeah, the computer. I am mostly falling into an autistic, silent world of my own... outer world be damned! I retreat into my own inner world. See ya! But oh! -- Kid! I HAVE to know what your holiday essay was about (?) ,and, how did it go?

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Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by Kid.....looks about the room suspicously.... on 2002-01-10 15:17:35  |  Reply to this

I'm sorry to hear about your taxes - from five years ago....seems that the problem doesn't lie with you.... My holiday essay, which, from when I started on 23rd, took me clean through to the 30th (excluding 26th & 29th afternoons for football) was about dyspraxia. I was working from audio cassettes, so it wasn't ideal, but I managed to ascertain some sort of rule system (albeit completely littered with exceptions). For me, personally, I thought it went fine. I struggled with it, transcription is never easy, and I found a distinct lack of source materials...and so on and so forth. But, for the effort I put in, I think it was worth it. All I need now is for the mark to confirm it. Please. No, really. Please!

Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by d.- on 2002-01-18 12:59:18  |  Reply to this

hmmm.... verrrry strange. I responded to this last week. I typed it. I 'created' it. I SAW IT WITH MINE OWN EYES! Then yesterday I went to look for a response and the original one I wrote wasn't anywhere to be found! sigh... so forgive me when I say that I have a crush on you. Your mind, that is.... and your writing -- for both are rich and fertile, compassionate and sensitive. Don't take it personally -- I only exist in the ethers anyway... Your fan, d.- P.S. oh -- by-the-by... are you studying to be a physician or a relate counselor? Re: Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by Kid...lost for words..and somewhat humbled. on 2002-01-19 12:46:39  |  Reply to this   No, unfortunately, I study Linguistics, which mean I'll probably end up being a high school English teacher, which is no bad thing, unless I have to teach me. Or somebody like me. Re: Re: Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by d.- on 2002-01-19 13:11:33  |  Reply to this   ahhh... you wish to be a writer then, eh? Spot on! I was inquiring because I looked up dyspraxia in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. It wasn't there. I thought: he's yanking my chain? THEN I looked at an online medical dictionary! And I thought: here is a champion of the frail and weak, those who would still be cast aside as 'retarded' and hence, unworthy of life, or of living it -- in other words incapable of learning at all. Yet this is not true. So. It takes a great deal of patience and compassion to pursue helping those whom the rest of society deems worthless. I believe in Mother Teresa's original vision she was told to: "help the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick". I'm not comparing you, just giving you (hopefully) inpiration. And with you we could add: the weakest of the weak i.e. those with learning disabilities... I admire this quality. Humanitarianism, I mean. For this reason I am ALL FOR genetic engineering and stem-cell research. In this day and age NO ONE! should have to be born with missing appendages, or, with additional ones. Everyone should be able to have vision and hearing. No one should be born with birth defects -- there's no need for it anymore! Everyone should have the same potential for growth -- life's tough enough, you know? Without the added and UNECESSARY challenge of a body or mind born with even the smallest of defects. Why? And to what purpose? Strong bodies for everyone! Amen. Re: Re: Re: Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by Kid. on 2002-01-20 05:40:13  |  Reply to this   As much as I would love the potential of 'perfect' human life, you have to remember a few things.... It is these mutations, random inflictions (or advantages) that few people have that are the root of evolution. I have a unit this semester on Evolutionary Psychology which is basically how evolution has affected the mind. Anyway. I couldn't agree more with the healing of the sickest of the sick, but it is worth bearing this in mind. In Norfolk, where I am, they only have the funding to 'help' the worst 2% of those with learning disorders. If they looked at it the other way, the x% above that only need a small amount of help before they become able to fit into mainstream, but because there is not funding available, so shouldn't they get the same chance. I wouldn't think there is any chance that I would get a career in this field; we often discuss this very point, and it seems, that although it can be tremendously rewarding, it is also more frustrating than you can imagine, and everything points against it. But...and there is a but...it is also one of those things that some people do, and to have that knowledge, at least to be able to help is something I feel very much proud of, whether I choose to use it actively or not. There will be another comment following, but I need time to sort it. Ah, that was it. by Kid. on 2002-01-20 05:46:29  |  Reply to this   My degree is in Linguistics, and my interest lies very much in language, and what it does. I study at one of the UK's better Universities. It probably falls into block 3 in the scale. Quick aside Group 1 Oxford/Cambridge. Group 2Lancaster (Hey Skiddy!), Durham, St. Andrew's (Hey Wills!) Group 3 UEA (Hey Me!)....other unis whose names elude me. I digress. Out of the X amount of universities in this country, there is only one in which people can choose to do what I have, in the field of language pathologies, although I assume there is similar things for other disabilities. The situation is very much the same in the United States. This is a shame. That's it for me. Re: Re: Re: methinks I doth protest too much! by d.- (again) on 2002-01-19 13:35:22  |  Reply to this   f.y.i. type in: Mattie Stepanek and see his website! This 11-yr. old boy is awesome! He is a poet and peacemaker... just thought you would be interested.