On 2003-01-22 17:03:00, Anonymous wrote:I'm not a disagreeable person unless people start talking about half of all children having attention deficit. |
Or, to put it another way, when quacks start talking about over half of all children being abnormal. WTF!!! Where's the scientist who was supposed to review this homework before it made it into the canons of scientific fact?? How in the world can a majority be abnormal?? By definition, they are normal!
And, btw, Anon I know just exactly what you're talking about. I was always so jealous of other kids who's mothers would cheer them on and come up with something encouraging to say under the most trying circumstances. And there was MY mom, constantly trying to nail me down with some evidence of one kind of dysfunction or another.
But she treated everyone that way. One time, my sister left from my mom's place on the other side of the state to visit me. Not long after she'd left, there was a hit-and-run involving a death on a highway that she might have used. You know that old lady called me up, hysterical, absolutely sure it had been my sister who plowed this man over and then went on her merry way. Friggin' amazing!
I am married, not Buried !
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