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Am I Misunderstanding Something?
Aug 6, 2008 | 9:17 PM
Category: Political
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If a person writes to me that a meeting cannot and will not be an IEP meeting in multiple letters and tells others that it is an IEP meeting ... what is it I'm misunderstanding ?

If a person tells me that that they will move forward with their own offered plans, not what was requested and tells another person that what was requested has been set up even though their documention proves otherwise ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

If a person asks for my input and then vilifies me for providing what was requested ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

If my elected representatives say it isn't their job to represent me ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

If a person who has a successful life is damaged by someone to the degree the harm severely affects their quality of life and the person who gets compensated regardless of the harm they inflicted is considered the victim ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

If the media gave Parker Jensen's family a chance and listened to them but won't give someone going through the equivalent documented situation the same consideration ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

If professionals say they have the best intentions of helping someone with autism and then repeatedly set up circumstances by which they can attempt to have that person arrested for autisitic manifestation ... what is it I'm misunderstanding?

Or maybe the current societal abomination deals with how non-autistic people sometimes treat those with the disorder whether they realize what they are doing or not; similar to how one group was torn from their homelands and confined to reservations ... another group given a free train ride to extermination ... another group torn from their homes and forced into relocation camps because of their ethnicity ... another group delegated to the back of the bus for the same reason ... another group institutionalized for not being able to conform to societal expectations ... and a plethora of examples from throughout humanity.

Maybe I'm not misunderstanding anything at all.

As for now, my priority is getting through the weekend. We are burying our Uncle Hank ... a decorated war hero from WWII and Korea ... a man who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He did not serve selflessly and honorably so such injustices could be repeated and flourish.

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Crossover read my blog view my photos
Aug 7, 2008 | 2:04 PM

It sounds like they are the ones who are misunderstanding things. Things like what your Uncle Hank, God rest his soul, stood for and fought for.
FreedomWarFighter read my blog view my photos
Aug 9, 2008 | 2:10 PM

Sounds like life in Utah. All things set for failure of the masses; blame the victim at all cost; and and 'professional', government, and criminal are synonyms. Very un-American in ideology and sub-human in scope.
Mariposa_Xochipilli read my blog
Aug 10, 2008 | 7:19 PM

Crossover,

Important stuff first; Cousin Hank Jr. (full Colonel USAF retired, former base commander) Joked that we have definitive proof it takes 1 hour 38 minutes to get to heaven ... that's how long it was after his Dad's death before the earthquake. It was the first time in 25 years the 7 brothers and sisters had been together ... four in the last year. I joked that it actually only took an hour and a half ... that it only took 8 minutes for their parents to have to put their foot down (the quake).

Jordan School District ... They might be misunderstanding things, but their attorney is getting a clearer picture. I asked what made Nassau County Board of Education V. Arline appropriate for education. The person's response was that it didn't pertain to our situation at all. I asked again. The person said it was irrelevant (sounding a tad peeved). I mentioned, at that point, the district had been using it for years to force services that had always failed. We are now talking about a fund the district would set up from which the girls' educational and support services can be payed.
The catch is that they are going to try and get us to sign a liability waiver ... before knowing how much damage was really caused - I don't think so.
shrub read my blog
Aug 14, 2008 | 12:25 AM

Americans have to have something to fear and fight. The indigent are preyed upon rather than assisted, completely opposite to what other countries do, for example, Canada. Canadians don't lock their doors. They have as many guns as Americans, but have only a few score deaths by them compared to our 11,000 annually. We've invaded 22 different countries in the last 60 years, and now we're borrowing money from the Chinese to buy oil so we can fight for something. We need to challenge the status quo.
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Mariposa_Xochipilli

I am the fortunate mother of three exceptional autistic children. One is an Eagle Scout who graduated on the Honor Roll. One is a nationally published poet whose interests include veterinary medicine, global warming and social justice. The third spearheaded a project that resulted in over 1,000 gifts being delivered to critically ill hospitalized children and had original art included in a worldwide exhibition of children's art. All three have been formally honored by the government of one of the fifteen largest economies in the world for multiple humanitarian endeavors benefitting vulnerable and impoverished children.

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