It’s real in reality? Or in the imaginary world you just made up where lazy kids have never had a bowl of Cap’n Crunch?
If, and I’m not saying this girl had MD, she might be able to text and hold a cellphone perfectly well, and not be able to manage meat cutting, or lifting a fork deftly to her mouth. My dad could handle a TV remote with no problem, but eating with utensils? That was a problem.
It’s real in the households of three extended family members I can think of. I didn’t actually make up those names, 'cause I’m lazy. Cap’n Crunch may be eaten in one of those households, but it’s dry, out of the box, in front of the TV, with a juice box on the side. (And she wonders why her kids never sleep.)
Hold your hand somewhat slack and slightly loose like the claw from one of those games where you try to grab a stuffed animal. I just did this with my phone (an iPhone 4 with a battery case) and it’s not too hard to cradle it in your hands- I got a head start by casually sliding it to the side of table and scooping it as peeked off the edge. Once it is in your hand, it can be done with relatively little muscle tone, especially if you still have the muscle control.
It didn’t work so well with a utensil, as utensils require constant even pressure that really needs decent muscle tone. Indeed, I found myself sort of half-cradling the fork and letting it kind of fall-stab. It’s not an easy task.
That’s bullshit. I was raised on exactly that stuff (and this was decades ago- kids these days, ideed) and I never had a problem using a fork.
You do realize this proves nothing right? Besides your own abilities and personal history of course.
No different than anyone else’s anecdotes, then, including the anecdote hers was countering. Frankly it still puzzles me that spoiled brat is more logical than legit impairment.
proactive apology for continuing hijack
Sorry officer.
Carry on.
But there is a difference between an anecdote that shows that something is possible because you saw it or did it yourself and one that seems to imply something is “bullshit” because you did it and therefore pretty much everyone can do it too.
The first doesn’t prove much. The second doesn’t even make sense.
Youre a meter maid?
These behaviors sound more like anorexia than physical disability to me. Especially the fork poking and eating with fingers. Small bites are more manageable during recovery than regular sized ones, and fingers are less threatening than silverware. If there are issues around actually physically putting the food into your mouth, playing with it is a good way to get through dinner without having to do so. If your parents are trying to support you through recovery (and you want to get better), at some point you might give in and let dad cut the food up into very small pieces and try working with those.
I am extremely puzzled by this post. First, by the fact that you choose this post of mine to quote. Did you see what I was quoting? It was a post by Loach (a police officer) saying that IHE most of the people parking in handicapped parking weren’t even disabled. It wasn’t even really relevant to this story, I just never see this admission being made by an able-bodied person, so I was making note of it.
I didn’t make assumptions about anyone. Why are you picking on me?
I once spent a couple of weeks sharing a house with a postdoc who ate like a disabled toddler. I learned to avoid his meal times.
What?? The typo?
Nm
When my daughter was 14 she went on a school sponsored trip to Europe. WhtNot is not far from the mark.
There was on girl that had never used a knife, she did not know how to cut her food. Another girl that refused to eat cause the food was different. A couple of the girls were force feeding her at one point. And finally there was the girl that had never eaten a seeded grape and could not cope with seeds. My daughter said she just stood there with her mouth open going Ewwwwww, and was stumped about what to do next.
All of these girls were upper middle class or above with no disabilities other then their parents had epically failed at raising a functional human.
My opinion of my child rearing skills went up several points when I heard these stories.
Real-world, common-sense thinking. I like it.
Best two posts of the thread.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend or pick on you. I made a comment about how people shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover and used an anecdote that has been posted many times before about how sometimes people who park in handicap parking are challenged by others because their disability may not be obvious.
You responded to someone who was poo pooing that with the response that he enforces the law and it is more often someone who isn’t impaired at all. My point wasn’t that it doesn’t happen… and maybe even frequently… but that there is a chance that you don’t recognize a certain disability, and it is frustrating to be accused of something when it may truly be beyond your control. I thought it was ironic that someone who is an advocate for the rights of the disabled would applaud the post saying that if it is ok to just go with what is assumed to be obvious.
I understand you are a very fit guy… and drive a car that doesn’t look like a normal disabled van. And I believe you have been challenged by parking that car in a spot and someone assumed that couldn’t be right. I hope I’ve learned some things from your posts and hope people can learn from ours as well.
People seem more eager to jump to the conclusion that the kid was a spoiled brat and not even consider that there could be other explanations. Even though many of us have shared deeply personal experiences of how the same assumptions have hurt our friends, family, loved ones, or even ourselves.
Never heard an example of fussy eating in my generation. You ate what was on the table or you were sent to bed hungry.