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Thread #160464   Message #3807029
Posted By: Donuel
27-Aug-16 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Deaf man shot dead by US cop
Subject: RE: BS: Deaf man shot dead by US cop
Yes Senofou
People are rarely one thing, category or diagnosis.
As a father of an autistic son the effort to teach skills of independence and self confidence in balance with caution and controlling fear is a daunting job whose goal is freedom.

It is not so unlike any parent's duties is it?

To hear other people's assumptions and prejudice regarding autism Is painful but typical. My son is not just one thing. He is also a hyperlexic genius, possibly from a severe blow to the left temporal lobe.
My efforts may have been instrumental or not, since he developed speech within hours of his fall from a bookcase resulting in a 3 by 1 inch welt.

Imagine my surprise as a tabula rasa dyslexic without assumptions or prejudice that Robert is straight line smarter than me. That he is a better writer and all my years and efforts were incidental help at best.
We make our plans , then life happens.

I once wrote "I wonder what a fully 100% actualized Human being would be like". In response there was an insult that I was too retarded to know. It turns out the answer is no one imprimatur person, but instead all of us together each with our own blindness leading the other partially blind to a collective fully actualized Human Being.