Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!wtm From: madams@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael E. Adams) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Happy Birthday to Me Message-ID: <17978@bunker.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 91 05:09:00 GMT Sender: news@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: madams@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael E. Adams) Distribution: misc Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 65 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 13825 Without fanfare or jubilation, I turned 29 today. As I reflect over the last ten years of my life, I realize that I am more handicapped by my social skills, or lack of, than I am by my physical impairment. It's no small irony that the "aggressive","self serving" traits that are so troublesome as an adult, are the very same skills I learned as a child to protect myself from a hostile peer group. If I had not pumped up my ego and placed my self firmly in the center of the known univers, I would surly have "check out" by now. As I mature and look outward, towards the needs of others, I find it hard to remember that many people have never had to face direct, personal, rejection. While I search for my place in "normal" society, I wonder if I will ever learn how to "cradle" these delicate people, or if they will ever learn to accept me..... (___) | Michael E. Adams (o o) | Custom Computer Programming /-------\ / | P.O. Box 5027 / | ||O | Chico, California 95927-5025 U.S.A. * ||,---|| | ~~ ~~ | internet: madams@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu No BULL bandwidth | From decvax!vm1.nodak.edu!LISTSERV Thu Feb 28 04:23:40 1991 Received: by bunker.shel.isc-br.com (5.51/1.34) id AA23725; Thu, 28 Feb 91 04:23:37 EST Message-Id: <9102280923.AA23725@bunker.shel.isc-br.com> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 9114; Wed, 27 Feb 91 16:27:52 CST Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0039; Wed, 27 Feb 91 16:27:50 CST Received: from CMUVM.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0031; Wed, 27 Feb 91 16:25:54 CST Received: from CMUVM (34AEJ7D) by CMUVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9171; Wed, 27 Feb 91 14:50:17 EST Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 14:45:49 EST From: decvax!vm1.nodak.edu!34AEJ7D%CMUVM.BITNET To: "Bill McGarry; Handicap Digest" Status: OR This message was originally submitted by 34AEJ7D@CMUVM to the L-HCAP list at NDSUVM1. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11 lines) ------------------ For anyone who might be interested, I am informed by a usually unreliable source that March 4 is the date for hearings in US District Court in Washington, D.C. on the Medical Marijuana reclassification case. This is the suit to make it available through normal prescription channels. I know it has some application in reducing the nausea from cancer chemotherapy for the experiences of my father. Cancer got him anyway - detected too late. I also know from another similar source that it has some use in reducing intraocular pressures,i.e., treating glaucoma. Anything else?