Comments on: Horseman

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:03:26 +0000

“don’t ask him about air vents”? Huh. What else is there to talk about?

By: mig

mig — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:35 +0000

My nephew, about 4, has a friend who although very bright has a thing about air vents and ventilation systems. They think he has Asperger’s. “Whatever you do, don’t ask him about air vents,” my sister warned me.

By: marydell

marydell — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:33:39 +0000

Crap. I split an infinitive in the above comment. I shouldn’t be teaching.

By: marydell

marydell — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:32:45 +0000

A friend teaches a class of 5 mentally retarded children (it’s actually okay to still say that in a school). One of her kids is so severely disabled that’s he’s practically incapable of completing the simplest tasks. If you ask him about music, however, he knows about a billion songs and can tell you the artist and the recite lyrics. It just goes to show that everyone is good at something.

By: francis s.

francis s. — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:25:35 +0000

When I was in high school and university, I made money in the summers and weekends working with kids and adults with, I suppose one says these days, special needs.

My experience was that the gene that causes Down’s Syndrome also confers a certain personality type: stubborn, funny, a sense of the dramatic and a bit obsessive-compulsive.

Working with kids and adults with special needs is exhausting, physically and emotionally, but the work is incredibly satisfying and constantly laugh-inducing.