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To: epicure who wrote (24631)	5/16/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You are right in all you say and I don't think we're contradicting each other; my point was not that special ed. should get less of anything, or that they shouldn't have special days that allow them to have experiences that otherwise might be denied them, or that we don't need education and explanations, but people seem to draw on more patience and niceness when a specific need or time is allotted than they use in every day living and relating---either with the exceptional or the not. It shouldn't be a "perk" to be accepted or treated with kindness and it shouldn't be so unusual to give time or love or acceptance to anyone, but it often is. SOmetimes the richer-beautiful-smarter have their own demons. And it's not as if the amount of patience or kindness in our possession is limited except by our own resentments, jealousies, competitiveness, and insecurities. I know it's unrealistic to think people will give the way they do on those special days to special kids all the time; I just wonder what it would be like.

To: epicure who wrote (24631)	5/16/1999 6:39:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

There is a good article in the most recent New Yorker about a boy who was born with a terrible birth defect, he only has one eye, and his fingers were not separated, and so on. The doctors and nurses wanted to let him die, and his family stuck up for him, and he's had something like 32 surgeries, and it turns out his intelligence is in the gifted range. But he looks so strange that people just blurt out awful things, everywhere he goes. But the people who know him have had their spirts and compassion enlarged by knowing him, including the neighbor kids. It's written by his aunt, I think it's worth reading.