These are some very precious human beings.

K&R

We don't need your middle school football conspiracy theory woo here.




(this is a joke)

And I say that with love.

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children have been changed for the better and for the rest of their lives. Tranformational teamwork!
Fear not, the future is in fine hands...

Thanks Heretic.

Tears running down my face (5 minutes after putting my makeup on). The parents of those kids should be very proud. They raised them right.

I agree. Someone did something right somewhere.

and then reapplied the makeup. Then I emailed the link to a bunch of people. It's good to make people smile these days.

I think those players have a future in the democratic party.

eyes. When you have a special needs child you wonder who will be there to help them when you are no longer around. Will they encounter people that will help along in life or will they encounter people who will try and take advantage of them? I guess the truth is they will probably encounter both but it is nice to KNOW that there are people out there like this and that your child will encounter people like this in their life.

He played high school basketball in upstate NY. He was equipment manager for his team. They finally let him play in the last quarter of the last game of the year, after they had built an insurmountable lead.

He drained SIX three-pointers in that one quarter (a quarter in HS hoops lasts only eight minutes); a seventh was ruled a two-pointer. All without anyone "conspiring" to help him.

He was not eligible for the playoffs, because he had only played in the one game. If only they had realized that the Autsitc kid might actually be good.

I don't remember if I put up the video or not (There are several) but here is a 2:00 one of the story;

and and I know your concerns…

We take advantage of every activity he can be a part of and there are many
fine peers and adults there to share with him.


Tikki

...oy... *sniffle*

What a great group of boys.

I also loved the "hug?" "Hug?"

Thanks Heretic.

I was happy to share it.

Now if you will excuse me I appear to have something in my eyes...

That along with the growth of children with disabilities, is that the typical children seem to learn compassion. Isolating kids into special schools might help develop some specific causes, but it socially damages both the children with disabilities and the growth of the typical children. If you don't expose them to each other, you tend to grow an us and them relationship.

Much how isolating people woth different political leanings tends to have us view the us vs them mentality

is that we see them as so unusual. Because they are, and that is the real tragedy. Hell, just look at the comments on the YouTube vid I posted.

I've often wondered why so many find it so difficult to be just simply kind. Even indifferent is better than mean.

But way too many are downright mean.

How shallow must your life be to be mean to someone like that? Who holds no ill will toward a living thing?


Humans fascinate me.

when I was young, our school did take kids in wheel chairs, with epilepsy. And then they didn't. I guess people thought separate but equal schools would be better. As it was, the Down's syndrome children were institutionalized, so much that when my cousin was born, she was the only one I saw for decades. My mother told me to stay away from her and my mother was a kind person but just did not understand why this child was not put away freeing her brothers and sisters to have "normal" lives. I could have been kinder, but mostly I just didn't talk to her, I just let her hug me, she really liked to hug people.

Today I assuage my guilt by working for inclusion. There are so many wonderful stories coming out of the common paying of typical kids with kids with disabilities.

http://inclusionproject.com/