I am a disability awareness teacher, and I have a couple comments.
What exactly do you people think ‘handicaps’ are? A handicap is a barrier. Dyslexia is a learning disability. To a person who is in a wheelchair, a ‘handicap’ is a curb, or a flight of stairs. To a person in English class, dyslexia is a handicap.
Dyslexia itself is not the handicap, it is a disability. A ‘mental impairment’ can be a handicap, and it is a disability.
I may be wrong, but to me it came across as if ‘handicapped’ people aren’t smart (“I’ve known several dyslexics & they are some of the smartest people I have known”). I work with a boy who has cerebral palsy. He will spend his life in a wheelchair. He has difficulty speaking. He is enrolled in a regular public school, and he is a straight-A student. Because he cannot speak well, others write him off as ‘stupid’, ‘retarded’, and ‘a handicap’. He is smart. He wants to be a medical researcher, and he’s certainly capable of it, provided he is given the chance.
‘Handicapped’ does not equal stupid. Disabilities do not equal stupid.
Something as simple as inaccurate vocabulary often leads to offensive stereotypes.
Zulu
Don’t be humble; You are not that great.
–Golda Meir
Mea culpa, Zulu, you are correct. I was trying to encourage him to seek help & to state that a person isn’t stupid just because that person can’t spell very well.
Mastery is not perfection but a journey, and the true master must be willing to try and fail and try again
First off i vote this kid is 14 and his “saterday nite funn” probably involves his mom and the star wars movie.
second i like to make a motion that this person be banned from reproducing. ever.
and lat a little advise for 'the love rock": stay away from drugs, son.
Either let me fly or give me death
Let my soul rest-take my breath
if i dont fly ima die anyway
Ima live on but ill be gone anyday
But just in case anyone really wants to know, Cecil does a “bang up” job describing the discovery of the clitoris on page 212 of Return of the Straight Dope.
chef troy, I’m with you, it is more than the spelling, or the subject, there is an innate immaturity that leads me to believe he is a child.
zulu, I am really trying to be P.C. about the whole thing, but the kid is stupid, if he is dyslexic, or not, left handed or right, white , black, or blue, mentally or physically impaired, or not …the boy is a retard!!! A moron!!! an idiot savant, without the savant!!! I am so sick of trying not to be offensive…screw it…he is a 'tard.!!! lables be damned…he fits, and as far as the whole trailer with the dirty kids thing…boy, is that ever on target…(shudder)…
Ok. I’m late finding this thread so I think I’ve missed the party, but accepting as fact that this kid is really only about 13, shouldn’t we encourage him to wait for sex?
At least until he can spell the anatomical part he is so desperately looking for. If this kid actually finds another kid dumbbbbbbbbb enought to have sex with at his age it may result in, gasp, another little loverock.
I’m off to the feeling old thread. Damn, this kid just depressed the hell out of me.
Guy’s look I have dyslexia, so I have a hard time spelling (right like you have never noticed on any of my postes. ) Before I post any thing I read it about a 1/2 dozen times and run it through spell check twice!
Yeah there are still mistakes but my postes DO NOT (man I wish I could figure out that bold command) look like that! If loverock is dyslexic this has got to be really embarrassing for him. If he DOESN’T (damn, bold that) and he is just screwing around then I’m embarrassed.
Sorry all i just HAVE to reply to this lovely thread!
Yes, and it shows clearly through your spelling.
Aha its plain to see that you aren’t in college! Trying to spell? More like a futile attempt at communicating on the most basic level. Of course i see, i do have two eyes.
Yes, you shouldn’t
Hmm… us wierd? Maybe, but at least we make sense.Wait, you knew what you wanted, yet u posted anyways? You MUST be fake. Alright give it up, reveal which regular you are, Crackrock (That’s my new name for you)
i juts saw this has 69 posts i tihnk its funy i do likke 69
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I go with Monty on 13. The number “69” hasn’t been funny to me in about 3 years…
Man, don’t all of you people see this little game he’s playing here? He’s sitting at home right now, thinking “hey… look at all these people paying attention to me, I must be special”.
I’m ready to meet Him
‘Cause where I’m livin’ ain’t right
Black hate white
White hate black
It’s right back to the same fight…
ha! so yer 13 ragin ann? hahaha! i’m older you! i’m so old i cna remenber things that u don! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
but mebe you shoudn b here cos if u are 13 then this not for u. litl kids lick youdon evn noe sex and so your two yung to be here
) Before I post any thing I read it about a 1/2 dozen times and run it through spell check twice!