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I just sort of sense a visceral contempt/distaste for slow in da minds here... Maybemy imagination?
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Eh... there's mentally disabled, and then there's "never going to be a person." That's the big thing for me. Really, I find kids to be less of people too. I mean, I've known some really great kids, but even so, kids are emotional, impulsive and, well, childish. And they need to grow up to fix those things. They're people-in-training, to me. But with the severely autistic, that's never going to happen. So I have a lot of sympathy for the people who have to deal with those sorts of people.Im guessng there is not much love for the mentally disabled commuity on this forum?
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The forum is based on Chris, sooo.
No but really if there's any contempt, it's either outright sarcasm about autism itself or an actual disdain towards families who will try to turn a blind eye towards the reality that their kid can't be normal and trying to shove them into situations the kid can't handle.
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Yeah, in the case of Church-boy they should've started looking into care facilities for him. He's just gotten too big to be out in public without a care worker that could safely restrain him. I mean, the mom couldn't hold him back from getting into someone else's car.
I understand about wanting your child to have a good life, but sooner or later you have to accept that you can't care for him properly anymore. It's no one's fault except God's, really and He is our greatest troll.
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To be fair, I know a number of adults to whom this applies... Actually, if I had to decide whether to trust the fate of the world to a highly-intelligent 10-year-old or to an average European 45-year-old, I'd opt for the kid.
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I once worked with a severely autistic kid as a classroom aide for Sunday School. He wasn't completely non-verbal, but he was very temperamental. The teacher I was working with mentioned that he had bit and pinched her, as well as other aides who have worked with her(I saw him pinch the teacher's neck hard enough to draw blood, and he bit me on the back once). He would often try to run out of the room and into the religious education office, either to grab a VHS/DVD cover (he had a fixation on them and sometimes "asked" me to read them to him) or throw himself on the floor with his hands covering his ears(He was also hypersensitive to noise). He would flap his hands, cover his nose and mouth with his hands, scrunch up his face, and in worst cases, throw a tantrum and cry. The last thing became pretty frequent later on.
When I first started with him, I thought I was making a breakthrough with him. I managed to calm him down on my first day, the principal told me how most people just gave up on him after the first day. I thought to myself "Hey, we're both autistic, maybe I can help him!" Unfortunately, I was wrong. His tantrums weren't as bad the first year that I started working with him, but they got worse during the second year, and finally things got really bad the third. His older sister came in during the third year to help when myself and the teacher were more or less all that was left (other aides had gone to college or were working in different classrooms). He would run into the religious education if either myself or the teacher wasn't standing in front of the door, and we both had to do it in shifts. I'd guard the doorway when she tried teaching the other kids the day's lesson, and the kid would stand there for the whole period waiting for the slightest opening so he could bolt out the door. When he did get to the office, he would throw himself on the floor and the teacher and I would try to get him to get up off the floor until she sent me back to watch the other kids. I often had to direct his dad to the office when he returned to pick him up.
When I tried getting the kid to get up, the other staff members in the room would tell me that I should just leave him. Thing is, I didn't want to give up, because I was still convinced that I could help him, no, I wanted to help him. The problem was that we were both on different ends of the autism spectrum, which didn't end up helping things. I felt like everyone else had just given up on this kid, and I didn't want to follow suit. To make matters worse at that point his parents were getting a divorce, and couple that with being averse to change...well...you can probably figure out the rest...
So when he finally reached his breaking point, he pinched the teacher on her neck hard enough to draw blood, bit me on the back hard, then bolted off before once again throwing himself on the floor and crying. The teacher and I both had to haul him back to the classroom and call his dad to pick him up. His dad wasn't very happy to find this out, took him home early, and that was the last I saw of him. I know it was out of my control, but I still feel guilty sometimes because
I couldn't help him. He was almost thirteen at the time if I recall correctly, and I'm now worried about what might happen to him when he gets older. Wherever he ends up, I can only hope that he won't be harmed.
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Here's a good one:
He's STILL living the dream. The LEGO dream.
SO need a cute girl... And an OFFICIAL LEGO LICENSED PRODUCT!!!
It looks like his hair is styled and his outfit picked out. Chris was trying, and it shows a little. He really nails the look of "awkward science whiz high schooler who wins the spelling bee and gets the cheerleader" in a cheesy after school special. The "Terrific Trio" of the serial killer glasses, the old man glasses string and the PacSun douche necklace with horrific proof of Autism dangling from it are what really made him pussy repellent. LEGO doesn't help either, it's a proven Abstinence practice that's 100% effective.
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Oh man, I love this picture. I don't really think that Chris knows it's chinese knockoff legos in this picture. But I always like to think that he does, and that he's got that cranky look on his face because of it.
SO need a cute girl... And an OFFICIAL LEGO LICENSED PRODUCT!!!
It looks like his hair is styled and his outfit picked out. Chris was trying, and it shows a little. He really nails the look of "awkward science whiz high schooler who wins the spelling bee and gets the cheerleader" in a cheesy after school special. The "Terrific Trio" of the serial killer glasses, the old man glasses string and the PacSun douche necklace with horrific proof of Autism dangling from it are what really made him pussy repellent. LEGO doesn't help either, it's a proven Abstinence practice that's 100% effective.
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Don't forget the Gumby for Gameboy Advance that was probably out of some discount bin at Walmart at the time.
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This picture is one of the best examples of what little thought or care (or effort) put into his Christmas gifts. I know some people are going to say "it's the thought that counts!", but I don't think that applies when the gift giver makes a point to get the cheapest things possible just so they don't have to spend a lot of money on someone else.
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Thanks for that story. I can appreciate how, even today, you feel for that kid and regret not being able to help him more. There's really nothing I can add to that, and I can't presume I know how it "should" have been handled.
This does bring me to one point I've been wanting to make, but have not had a better opportunity. It is unfair for the child's parents to expect a teacher to deal with a known violent child unless that teacher has been specifically trained on how to handle such situations. It's also unfair for the church/school to expect this. It's absolutely inappropriate for them to put the burden on a fellow student. Without the proper training on how to handle a physical episode, the risk of harm to the teacher, child, or student bystanders goes through the roof. I realize no school wants to be seen as playing "Kick the autistic", but just shoving the problem child off on an unprepared class helps no one.
I'm really sorry for what happened.
Is the box actually that blurry, or is it just a shitty picture?
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Not sure. An image of a new box doesn't seem to be blurry, so it might've been the picture, or it might've been because Borb got it from a dollar store, and it was faded or something.
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Don't feel bad about not helping the kid. You tried everything you could. He just needed more support and care than everyone thought. If he's in a good care facility, he can progress and hopefully stop hurting people.
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So that's clearly a knockoff of this real Lego set, did the Borb just paste a Lego sticker on the knock-off box?
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Beef Thunderpants
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I have great empathy for all people involved in these situations, but don't have much patience for people immersed in the 'community' that expect the world to stop for them, or to accept behavior that would be unacceptable in a person without whichever disability. Most people are willing to accommodate them as much as they can, but at some point the parents or caretakers need to realize they are unfairly impacting the people around them and shouldn't expect people to put up with it just because their child has special needs.
Regarding CWC, I have little sympathy for his plight. He has been deemed capable of driving a car, was able to earn an Associate's degree (they won't mainstream you through that like they would in high school), and is able to figure out relatively intricate computer programs for video games and the internet. He is definitely aware of his behavior and what is right and wrong. As far as his hardships, a lot more people have gone through a lot worse experiences in their lives and are fully functioning adults.
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Well, these Chinese knockoff dudes have at least one thing which TRUE and HONEST Danish LEGO lacks so far: Hardcore military action!
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