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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Employment
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Date: 27 Aug 90 20:06:45 GMT
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In article <13651@bunker.UUCP> Kevin.White@f120.n138.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 9942
>
>I hope this isnt a restricted area, my cousin is disabled
>mentally and physically, he's about 10 now, and about the only
>legible thing he can say is Cookie, he's very short for his age too,
>or I'm too tall. :-)

You're right, it's a restricted area.  A platoon of U.S. Marines is
on the way to your house right now.	:-)

>Here in Washington there are ads for Disabled physically
>and also from drug abuse, they seem to, and I dont want to sound
>harsh, get paid more than a "normal" person would but I know
>that even disabled people are normal, they just have differet

Let's get this straight, Kevin.  None of the persons with moderate
disabilities I know, are driving BMWs (or any car, for that
matter), or drinking Perrier.  As for the severely disabled ... have
you ever seen a spastic quad who didn't get physical therapy when
he was a teenager, and is now wrapped up into a ball?  So what's
your point??  I've heard enough crap from Ronnie Ray-guns about
welfare chiselers, to last a lifetime.

>P.S. There once was a "disabled" person who was my age
>and advertised she wanted someone caring and could live with
>her small as she called it disabilities, I desperately wanted
>to meet her and get to know her better, but I was with someone
>that only lasted a month who was a former drug abuser and
>I dont know if she still was every once in a while, what should
>I do?  Put an ad in there asking for her, but I dont want to make
>her feel worse by asking for "the disabled girl who wrote an ad
>in here a month ago"..

Could it have been *your* loss, not *hers*?

>Love to all,

Don't take this as a flame, Kevin.  You might even be a very nice
person.  But Gloria Steinem said something 20 years ago to the
effect of "Don't patronize me".  It's still good advice.
--
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