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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (58119)	9/16/2002 2:01:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

If I had indeed made the demeaning crack you read into my post, you would have reason to be disappointed. But I didn't. The sympathy comment was not made about the daughter, but about the adults. I do have sympathy, as well as much admiration, for parents who have children with handicaps. One of the reasons I was so active in working with a residential camp for the handicapped was to give their caregivers, often people bearing sole responsible 24/7, some time for themselves, knowing that caring for certain handicapped people can be both a joy and a very stressful responsibility. Many caregivers have very satisfying and fulfilling lives because of their relationship with their handicapped family members. But many don't, and feel trapped and restricted by sometimes overwhelming responsibilities. I don't think that sympathy for some adults caring for the handicapped is necessarily misplaced -- do you? And sometimes, I think you must admit, people who are such caregivers use their perceived burden to obtain sympathy from others. Which was the question I raised. Not sympathy for the daughter or even for jla, but whether such a relationship would be used to garner sympathy from X. Quite a different thing than you suggested.