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To: E who wrote (20821)	9/13/2002 10:35:21 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 21057

:-) Nicely said.

To: E who wrote (20821)	9/16/2002 10:58:31 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 21057

I was sure that you intended no harm, and I recalled your situation, in fact, though I did not bring it up. In my case, my son was mistaken for mildly retarded briefly at the beginning of elementary school, because although he was ahead in reading, he was behind in talking. By the time he was retested in the middle of elementary school, he was conceded to have a normal intelligence, and by his third major evaluation, at the end of 6th grade, he was found to be of above average intelligence. If it had not been for me making sure that he really learned what he needed to, initial expectations were so low that he would never have caught up academically, and even after the second major retest, where I was able to upgrade his status, there was a certain lackadaisicalness about the expectations for his progress that I had to combat, since he was still regarded as having "pervasive developmental disorder", akin to autism, but really a catchall for what they have trouble understanding. That is why, despite some unevenness, I am proud that he graduated with a B minus average out of a solidly college prep curriculum, and did above average, if not spectacularly, on his SATs. In any event, although my son was not, in the end, retarded, his experience with special ed, and our experience with some of his classmates, did sensitize me. Additionally, I have a profoundly disabled brother, with cerebral palsy, though not retarded, and that gives me some perspective. I understand your point about "dark comedy", incidentally, but it is very easy to be misunderstood........