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To: Ish who wrote (213448)	1/17/2007 6:43:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

My local courthouse cafeteria hires the higher functioning mentally disabled, and some of these are not as universally sunny in disposition as others. It's the less able ones who are the happiest. Danged if I know why. Maybe they simply are not able to worry.

To: Ish who wrote (213448)	1/17/2007 7:18:13 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

I worked with severely retarded people for three years while in school. Down's syndrome kids are high functioning and usually happy - it's part OF the syndrome TO be sunny. The ones I worked with were severely retarded AND severely physically deformed (one occasion) and severely retarded and blind (another occasion). Some were happy and seemed to enjoy life. Some seemed to be in continual pain and/or anguish and living in their own hell. Some you had no idea what was going on with them. We provided for all of them. You don't see any of the type I cared for portrayed on TV or in movies, but they are there, in every state in the union, hidden away.