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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (83619)	7/10/2000 7:22:09 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 108807

I almost flunked seventh grade. I had a 1.60 gpa at the end of high school. I knew what I wanted to do when I started college. I had a 4.0 the first semester of college. I dropped out of college (no funds) in my senior year and drifted all over the place. Lived on a commune, later in a TP, and for a while just nature survived. Went back to college a few years later and finished BA then drifted some more. Decided to settle down and worked for a few years then did my masters. Worked a few more, then did PhD. I'm not smart. Nothing comes easy but when I make a decision to work hard I can kick butt. In todays noncompetitive enabling society almost any average person can do the same. Sound familiar? Ok but don't slap a label on me or any of my kids. I have watched too many kids get labeled and that is the final solution/excuse for them. I have seen kids who obtained this label for a handicap which did not commonly appear until the late eighties or early 90s. If you have a handicap you had it all your life. What was it called before the 90s. I have met people who have gone through a slew of handicaps starting in early childhood with Mentally retarded (MR)then a few years later Significantly Limited Intellectual Capacity (SLIC), then developmental disability (DD), then normal intelligence was discovered so they were Emotionally Disturbed (ED) Then it was found that they get along fine with everybody but they just have problems with school work related stuff, so Learning Disability (LD); No real evidence for a specific kind of learning disability but there is that discrepancy between achievement scores and where they should be in school so it must be A.D.D. ....finally...don't count on it. I have no problem with providing services for specific real handicaps. A.D.D. this and A.D.D. that is so wide open to a greater or lesser extent that we all qualify. Its a sinking life raft that even those who could swim on their own are trying to climb into.